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United States President Donald Trump has invited India to beryllium a portion of the Board of Peace for Gaza, sources successful New Delhi said connected Sunday (January 18, 2026).
The Board of Peace for Gaza comprises a radical of countries that are being invited by the U.S. to supply a governance operation for the Gaza Strip, arsenic Hamas is being pressured to springiness up its governance relation successful the territory arsenic portion of Mr. Trump’s bid plan.
Officials unwilling to beryllium named said that India has the “invite successful hand” to beryllium connected the Board of Peace for Gaza, though New Delhi has not responded arsenic yet. This comes 3 days aft Mr. Trump announced connected societal media that the Board of Peace had been formed and that its members would beryllium announced “shortly”.
Trump to seat Board
The Trump bid program for Gaza was archetypal floated connected September 29, 2025, erstwhile the U.S. President hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu astatine the White House. Following the announcement of the bid plan, Hamas agreed to instrumentality each 48 remaining hostages who were being held successful Gaza successful speech for Palestinian prisoners successful Israeli jails and Gaza detainees.
As per the plan, Gaza volition beryllium administered by the “temporary transitional governance of a technocratic apolitical Palestinian committee”, which volition dwell of Palestinian and planetary experts. This transitional outfit volition beryllium supervised by the Board of Peace, to beryllium headed by Mr. Trump and see “other members and heads of state”, arsenic good arsenic the United Kingdom’s erstwhile Prime Minister Tony Blair. The Board of Peace is expected to handle backing for the “redevelopment of Gaza” till the Palestinian Authority has completed a “reform programme”.
Seeking troops for stabilisation force
The United States is expected to enactment with planetary partners to make a “temporary” International Stabilisation Force (ISF) to beryllium deployed successful Gaza soon. The U.S. has been successful talks with aggregate countries crossed the satellite for troops to enactment successful the ISF.
Officials present person maintained that India would not beryllium portion of the ISF arsenic it is not a peacekeeping unit nether the aegis of the United Nations. On October 9, 2025, however, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had welcomed the Trump bid program successful a station connected X, saying, “We invited the statement connected the archetypal signifier of President Trump’s bid plan. This is besides a reflection of the beardown enactment of PM Netanyahu. We anticipation the merchandise of hostages and enhanced humanitarian assistance to the radical of Gaza volition bring respite to them and pave the mode for lasting peace.”
For decades, India has maintained that a “two-state solution”, ensuring the instauration of a Palestinian authorities that would beryllium broadside by broadside with Israel, is the mode to resoluteness the Israel-Palestinian conflict. The two-state solution has besides been reiterated by the Ministry of External Affairs connected aggregate occasions since the latest circular of the struggle erupted connected October 7, 2023.
