Trumps Board of Peace proposal has hit a roadblock amid reconstruction of Gaza Strip

President Trump is sounding bullish about the future of Gaza.After the Board of Peace, created by the US administration to manage the postwar reconstruction of the coastal enclave, issued its plan on Friday to disarm Hamas and allied terrorist groups, Trump hailed it as a “monumental step” for both Palestinians and Israelis.Encouragingly, a capable international team is leading the initiative: At the helm is Nickolay Mladenov, an experienced Bulgarian diplomat intimately familiar with the pitfalls of peacemaking in the Middle East.Mladenov is under no illusions about the mammoth task ahead.As he put it in his announcement of the disarmament proposal, “Implementation and verification have to be real.”The disarmament of Hamas is the central plank of a broader 15-point Roadmap issued by the Board of Peace.Both Israel and Hamas would have to meet key milestones within an agreed timeframe.That includes the phased withdrawal of the Israel Defense Forces from Gaza.It would also replace Hamas’ brutal regime with a technocratic government — the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG), headed by Dr.

Ali Shaath, a Gaza-born engineer and former Palestinian Authority official.And it would result in the deployment of an International Stabilization Force charged with monitoring compliance, ensuring the delivery of humanitarian aid, and training Palestinian law-enforcement authorities.The final goal, as the Roadmap puts it, is to govern Gaza according to the principle of “One Authority, One Law, One Weapon.”That, in turn, will prepare the ground for Gaza to become, in the words of Trump’s October peace plan, “a deradicalized terror-free zone that does not pose a threat to its neighbors.”Danny Danon, Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, said Israel was “looking forward to implementing” the plan — but cautioned: “We have to verify what they [Hamas] are doing, not what they are saying.”Hamas’ response, however, is worrying.Calling the R...