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Trump urged Netanyahu to implement Gaza peace plan, including Hamas disarmament, after Israeli elections. Plan envisions transferring governance to a technocratic Palestinian government with gradual implementation.
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Post-election Gaza push
President Donald Trump told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a phone call on Thursday that he wants Netanyahu to take steps to implement his Gaza peace plan, according to two sources familiar with the conversation. The plan calls for disarming Hamas and demilitarizing the Gaza Strip, while transferring responsibility for administering the territory to a new Palestinian technocratic government. The sources said Trump wanted to move forward with implementing the plan regardless of whether Netanyahu or the opposition forms the next Israeli government after the Israeli elections held on October 27.
The sources also said the Trump administration did not want implementation of the plan to become a politically controversial issue during the Israeli election campaign. The sources described the call as constructive, and they said it also addressed the war with Iran.
Peace Council and Blair
Trump’s Board of Peace, established as part of the Gaza agreement, has been working for months on an implementation plan that includes the establishment of a Palestinian technocratic government and an International Stabilization Force. The sources said the Board of Peace reached an agreement with Hamas in July on a 15-point plan to disarm the armed groups in Gaza and transfer civilian and security control to the new Palestinian technocratic government. The sources said Netanyahu’s government has largely refused to move forward with implementing the plan mostly for domestic political reasons.
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, a member of the Board of Peace, visited Israel a day after the call and met Netanyahu and Gadi Eisenkot, who was tasked with trying to form a new Israeli government. A U.S. official told Axios that the implementation will be difficult but that the United States needs full cooperation and partnership from the Israeli government, saying, "We need full cooperation and partnership from the Israeli government."
Roadmap, verification, stakes
The sources said the Board of Peace unveiled a six-month, $2.45 billion initial recovery plan for Gaza during the U.N. General Assembly in September, and they said it includes 66 projects.
“The 'Peace Council' had disclosed, during meetings of the United Nations General Assembly in September, an initial plan for Gaza recovery spanning six months, valued at $2.45 billion.”
The sources said reconstruction would only begin after progress in disarming Hamas had been verified, and they said the process would be gradual.
The sources said the Trump administration, the Peace Council, and Israel agree that the plan remains the best path forward and that there is no credible alternative.
The sources said Israel and Hamas had agreed about a year ago to the first phase of Trump’s 20-point plan, which led to a ceasefire in the Gaza war and the release of the last 20 living hostages taken during the October 7, 2023 attacks.
The sources also said two Palestinians were martyred on Sunday evening in an Israeli bombardment west of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.
