U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff delivers a property league upon the signing of the declaration connected deploying post-ceasefire unit successful Ukraine, during the alleged 'Coalition of the Willing' summit, astatine the Elysee Palace successful Paris, France, Jan. 6, 2026.
Ludovic Marin | Via Reuters
The United States said Wednesday that it is moving into the adjacent signifier of a Gaza ceasefire program that involves disarming Hamas, rebuilding the war-ravaged territory and establishing the radical of Palestinian experts that volition administer regular affairs successful Gaza nether American supervision.
President Donald Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff said successful a station connected X that the ceasefire woody that the Republican president helped broker was entering its 2nd signifier pursuing 2 years of warfare betwixt Israel and Hamas, including the constitution of a technocratic authorities successful Gaza.
But Witkoff did not connection immoderate details astir who would service connected the caller transitional Palestinian medication that would govern Gaza. Trump's White House did not instantly connection immoderate much information, either.
Witkoff said that the U.S. expects Hamas to instantly instrumentality the last dormant hostage arsenic portion of its obligations nether the deal.
While Wednesday's announcement indicates a cardinal measurement forward, a caller authorities successful Gaza and ceasefire look a fig of immense challenges — including the deployment of an planetary information unit to supervise the woody and the hard process of disarming Hamas.
Appointees to a technocratic committee are portion of a broader program to extremity Hamas' 18-year regularisation of Gaza. Their names person not been released, but they volition tally day-to-day affairs successful Gaza, nether the oversight of a Trump-led "Board of Peace," whose members person besides not yet been named.
The ceasefire reached nether Trump's 20-point program took effect successful October and stopped overmuch of the fighting. Under the archetypal signifier of the deal, Hamas released each but 1 hostage it was holding successful speech for hundreds of Palestinians who were held by Israel.
The technocratic committee that Witkoff said would beryllium established nether the 2nd signifier volition beryllium tasked with providing nationalist services to the much than 2 cardinal Palestinians successful Gaza, but it faces towering challenges and unanswered questions, including astir its operations and financing.
The United Nations has estimated that reconstruction volition outgo much than $50 billion. The process is expected to instrumentality years, and small wealth has been pledged truthful far.
There besides is the much contiguous situation of figuring retired however to instrumentality implicit basal services aft astir 2 decades of Hamas-led regularisation successful Gaza and repeated rounds of struggle with Israel.
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