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Indian-American President of the World Bank Group, Ajay Banga, and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio are among the leaders named to the 'Board of Peace' for Gaza redevelopment nether President Donald Trump's broad program to extremity the conflict.
The White House connected Friday (January 16, 2026) released a database of appointed members to the founding Executive Board of the Board of Peace, which it said comprises leaders with "experience crossed diplomacy, development, infrastructure, and economical strategy".
Besides Mr. Banga and Mr. Rubio, the Executive Board includes U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff, Mr. Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, erstwhile U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair, backstage equity steadfast Apollo Global Management CEO Marc Rowan and U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor Robert Gabriel.
“Each Executive Board subordinate volition oversee a defined portfolio captious to Gaza's stabilisation and semipermanent success, including, but not constricted to, governance capacity-building, determination relations, reconstruction, concern attraction, large-scale funding, and superior mobilisation,” the White House said.
It added that further Executive Board and Gaza Executive Board members volition beryllium announced successful the coming weeks.
To found information and a durable terror-free environment, Major General Jasper Jeffers, Commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command Central, has been appointed Commander of the International Stabilisation Force (ISF).
He volition pb information operations, enactment broad demilitarisation and alteration the harmless transportation of humanitarian assistance and reconstruction materials, the White House said.
“The United States remains afloat committed to supporting this transitional framework, moving successful adjacent concern with Israel, cardinal Arab nations, and the planetary assemblage to execute the objectives of the Comprehensive Plan,” it said.
Mr. Trump has called connected each parties to cooperate afloat with the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG), the Board of Peace, and the ISF to guarantee swift implementation of the plan.
The NCAG has been described arsenic a captious measurement successful implementing phase-II of Trump's broad program to extremity the Gaza conflict, a 20-point roadmap aimed astatine lasting peace, stability, reconstruction, and prosperity successful the region.
According to the plan, if some sides agree, the “war volition instantly end”.
Israeli forces volition retreat to an agreed-upon enactment to hole for the merchandise of hostages, portion each subject operations, including aerial and artillery strikes, volition beryllium suspended.
Battle lines volition stay frozen until conditions are met for a implicit staged withdrawal.
The inaugural besides envisages a "Trump economical improvement plan” to rebuild and revitalise Gaza by convening a sheet of experts progressive successful processing modern “miracle cities” successful the West Asia.
As per the plan, concern proposals and improvement ideas from planetary groups volition beryllium considered to align information and governance frameworks, thereby attracting concern and generating jobs and opportunities.
It besides proposes the constitution of a peculiar economical portion with preferential tariffs and entree rates to beryllium negotiated with participating countries.
“No 1 volition beryllium forced to permission Gaza, and those who privation to permission volition beryllium escaped to bash truthful and escaped to return. We volition promote radical to enactment and connection them the accidental to physique a amended Gaza,” the program states.
