Tony Blair seeks to play a major role in Gaza during the era of Donald Trump’s peace plan

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Sir Tony Blair, the former British Prime Minister, is seeking to play a major role in the post -war administration in Gaza under a peace plan that is developed by the Trump administration, according to the people who were briefed on the proposal.

Blair is discussing post -conflict plans with US President Donald Trump, who presented this week this week The latest proposals for the ceasefire In Gaza and how the tape will be ruled in a transitional period after the fighting stopped, during a meeting of Arab and Muslim leaders.

Trump’s proposals included the establishment of a Palestinian committee to manage the liberation of the war, which will be supervised by an international supervision council.

One of the people who looked at the plans said Blair He would like to be in the supervisory council. Another person familiar with the matter said that he had suggested as head of a council “international transitional authority in Gaza.” Blair’s office rejected the comment.

Blair, who served as the Middle East envoy after leaving Downing Street, is working on individual energy for months to provide an international confidence plan to rule Gaza once in the Israeli war for two years against Hamas.

He attended a A meeting in the White House last month To discuss post -war plans for the besieged tape with Jared Kushner, Trump’s son -in -law and Middle East Adviser during the term of the first president.

European and Arab countries opposed the idea of ​​international confidence, believing that they would attack the Palestinians and lack legitimacy in the eyes of Ghazan.

They argue that Gaza must be managed by a committee of Palestinian technocrats, which was approved by the Palestinian Authority, which is the Western supporting body that runs limited parts of the occupied West Bank.

Trump’s proposals include elements of various European and Arab plans, including the Palestinian Committee for the Management of the Risk with International Supervision and the spread of the International Stability Force to help in the security management.

The president’s plan also states that there will be no enforced displacement of conquest.

Arab officials said they were optimistic about the plan after their meeting on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday. Among the leaders and senior officials from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Qatar, Pakistan and Indonesia.

One of the people who reviewed the discussions about a possible role to Blair said that the United States is looking to play a role in a transitional arrangement in Gaza.

Under Trump’s proposals, the United States will press for a permanent ceasefire, with all the remaining hostages kept by Hamas – about 20 of them believed to be alive – they were released together.

The people said that the Israeli forces in Gaza will return to the positions they occupied during the temporary ceasefire between January and March and withdraw completely from the tape as soon as there is a stability force.

Hamas, which sparked the war with its attack on October 7, 2023 on Israel, which killed 1,200 people, will not have a role in power. People who have seen the Trump plan said that the Palestinian Authority will participate in the transition, but the Arab and Muslim countries want to expand their role.

There will be a great test for the success of the plan, the reaction of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when the US President meets in Washington on Monday.

Netanyahu has repeatedly pledged to “destroy” Hamas. Another ceasefire has been broken in March and in recent weeks I launched a new attack in Gaza CityThe largest urban center in the tape. He also repeatedly rejected any role of the Palestinian Authority.

His response to Trump’s plan may test the president’s intention to pressure Israel to end his attack in Gaza, which killed more than 65,000 people, according to Palestinian health officials.

Trump told correspondents at the Oval Office earlier on Thursday that he had a “very good conversation” with Netanyahu and other Middle East leaders, and “he was very close to holding a deal on Gaza.” He also said, “I am It will not allow Israel to include the West BankAnd this was transferred to Netanyahu.

The White House did not immediately respond to the request to comment on the role of Blair.