A letter inviting leaders of a number of countries to participate in a so-called U.S.-led Board of Peace took place on 17th January and would initially seek to stop conflict in Gaza but would subsequently be applied to conflicts in other countries, diplomats said.

On Friday, the White House announced some of its members, who would survive to oversee the transitional government of Gaza, on a wobbling ceasefire since October.

They are the U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the special envoy of President Donald Trump, Steve Witkoff, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and the son-in-law of Trump, Jared Kushner. According to a plan his White House announced in October, Trump is the chair of the board.

Trump signed off on a plan between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which proposes a Palestinian technocratic government under an international board, which will watch the governance of Gaza over a period of transitional time.

TRUMP Seeks World Peace Role.

President Donald Trump, in an interview with Reuters earlier this week, said that it would begin with Gaza and then proceed to conflicts as they emerge.

The question was, how would the goal of the war be? Trump answered: – Other countries that are going to war with each other.

Several rights professionals and activists have indicated that Trump being the chairperson of a board that monitors the governance of a foreign territory is like a colonial institution, whereas Blair was involved in the Iraq war, and the British imperialism of the Middle East lent credence to his participation last year.

The White House failed to outline the duty of every board member. None of the Palestinians is named. According to the White House, additional members would be announced in the next few weeks.

It also appointed a separate, 11-member, so-called “Gaza Executive Board” to assist the technocratic body, including Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, the U.N. Middle East peace coordinator, Sigrid Kaag, the United Arab Emirates International Cooperation Minister, Reem Al-Hashimy, and Israeli-Cypriot billionaire Yakir Gabay.

However, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that the makeup of this board was not agreed with Israel and was in contradiction with its policy – perhaps it is an allusion to the inclusion of Fidan, as Israel does not want Turkey to be involved. The Israeli government did not at once reply to a call to comment further.

FRANCE, GERMANY, EGYPT, TURKEY AMONG INVITED ONES.

Israel and Hamas have blamed each other for the ceasefire breach in Gaza, where at least 450 Palestinians, including over 100 children and three Israeli soldiers, have been reported killed during the truce.

The operation of Israel against Gaza since October 2023 has taken the lives of tens of thousands, led to the hunger crisis and the internal displacement of an entire population of Gaza. Various rights analysts, academics and a U.N. inquiry declare this as genocide. Israel has argued that it acted in self-defence because Hamas-led militants had murdered 1,200 and seized 250 hostages in a late 2023 attack.

On Saturday, four sources stated that the heads of France, Germany, Australia and Canada were some of the leaders invited to sit on the Board of Peace.

The offices of the Egyptian and Turkish presidents affirmed that they had been invited. An EU official reported that the European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, had been invited to lead the European Union.

Two diplomatic sources indicated that the invitation letter contained a charter.

It is a Trump United Nations that does not respect the principles of the U.N charter, remarked one of the diplomats who had seen the letter, which referred to the board as a bold new way of effectively addressing the Global Conflict.

Other members of the Board of Peace will be the private equity executive and billionaire Marc Rowan, the World Bank President, Ajay Banga, and Robert Gabriel, who is a Trump adviser, the White House said, and Nikolay Mladenov, a former U.N. Middle East envoy, will be the high representative of Gaza.

The White House said that the commander of the International Stabilisation Force was Army Major General Jasper Jeffers, a special operations commander in the U.S. In mid-November, the board and countries collaborating with it were given the authority to form that force in Gaza by a resolution by the U.N. Security Council.