Trump's 'Board of Peace' with Jared Kushner, Tony Blair heads to Middle East to salvage Gaza peace deal | Fortune
President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and negotiator Jared Kushner will travel to the Middle East next week to try to advance plans for an end to the conflict in Gaza aftera deal recently announcedby the Trump. . .
President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and negotiator Jared Kushner will travel to the Middle East next week to try to advance plans for an end to the conflict in Gaza aftera deal recently announcedby the Trump administration ran intoIsraeli opposition. An official withthe Board of Peace, the body Trump established to oversee the fragile ceasefire in theIsrael-Hamas war, said Kushner, board high representative Nickolay Mladenov, and executive board member and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair would arrive in Israel on Sunday. The group will then travel to Cairo, where meetings ofa Palestinian technocratic groupset to assume control of Gaza under a U. S. -brokered ceasefire deal have been taking place for the past several months, the official said. The trip was reported earlier by Axios. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because planning for details of the trip has not yet been finalized, said the meetings would demonstrate the determination of Trump and the Board of Peace to “see peace, prosperity and sustainable security emerge” in a demilitarized Gaza where Hamas has ceded control toallow reconstructionof thedevastated territory. ButIsrael has dismissed a recent dealannounced by Trump for Hamas to disarm and Israel to withdraw its forces from the Palestinian territory, marking a rare public display of friction with the Trump administration. Though Hamasaccepted the planto decommission its weapons, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in recent days that Israel would not withdraw until Hamas has completely disarmed. The deal had been seen as a potential breakthrough for ending the war in Gaza. The agreement was based on an October ceasefire that ended major military operations and brought about the release ofthe remaining hostagesheld in Gaza, but ithas stalled on other fronts. Fortune Dailybreaks the traditional barrier between audience and newsroom. The show transformsFortune’s trusted reporting into actionable, conversational, and entertaining insights for an emerging class of business leaders. Watch here.