Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the US-backed Board of Peace have agreed to establish two working groups focused on the disarmament and demilitarisation of Gaza.
Monday’s agreement came at a meeting in Israel between Netanyahu, US President Donald Trump’s envoy and son-in-law Jared Kushner, and Board of Peace Director Nickolay Mladenov, according to Netanyahu’s office.
“The Prime Minister and Board of Peace had deep and constructive discussions. It was agreed to establish two working groups,” Netanyahu’s office said in a statement posted on X.
The first group, it added, would focus on the “disarmament and demilitarisation of Gaza,” which both Israel and the Board of Peace are determined “should be prompt and completed before any reconstruction happens in Gaza.”
A second working group will focus on “sanitation, clean water and other public health issues for the people of Gaza” that also affect people in Israel, according to the statement.
Former British prime minister Tony Blair also attended the meeting, The Times of Israel reported, citing an unnamed source.
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