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Israel's authorities is objecting to the White House announcement of leaders who volition play a relation successful overseeing adjacent steps successful Gaza.
The uncommon disapproval from Israel of its adjacent state successful Washington says the Gaza enforcement committee “was not coordinated with Israel and is contrary to its policy,” without details.
Saturday's (January 17, 2026) connection besides said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told the overseas ministry to interaction Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
The committee announced by the White House connected Friday (January 16) includes nary Israeli authoritative but has an Israeli businessman, billionaire Yakir Gabay. Other members announced truthful acold see 2 of U.S. President Donald Trump's closest confidants, a erstwhile British Prime Minister, an American wide and a postulation of apical officials from Middle Eastern governments.
The White House has said the enforcement committee volition transportation retired the imaginativeness of a Trump-led “Board of Peace,” whose members person not yet been named.
The White House besides announced the members of a caller Palestinian committee to tally Gaza's time to time affairs, with oversight from the enforcement committee.
The committee's members include U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Trump envoy Steve Witkoff, Mr. Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, erstwhile British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Apollo Global Management CEO Marc Rowan, World Bank President Ajay Banga, and Mr. Trump's Deputy National Security Adviser Robert Gabriel.
Committee members besides see a diplomat from Qatar and an quality main from Egypt — some countries person been ceasefire mediators — arsenic good arsenic a Cabinet Minister for the United Arab Emirates and Turkiye's Foreign Minister.
Minutes aft the connection from Mr. Netanyahu's office, Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir successful a connection backed the Prime Minister and urged him to bid the subject to hole to instrumentality to war.
The Trump medication earlier successful the week said the U.S.-drafted ceasefire program for Gaza was present moving into its challenging 2nd phase, which includes the caller Palestinian committee successful Gaza, deployment of an planetary information force, disarmament of Hamas and reconstruction of the war-battered territory.
The ceasefire took effect connected October 10, with the archetypal signifier focusing connected the instrumentality of each remaining hostages successful speech for the merchandise of hundreds of Palestinian detainees, on with a surge successful humanitarian assistance and a partial withdrawal of Israeli forces successful Gaza.
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Gaza's second-largest militant radical aft Hamas, successful a connection besides expressed dissatisfaction with the constitution of the enforcement committee and claimed it reflected Israeli “specifications.”
