Israel says Nickolay Mladenov to direct Trump’s proposed Gaza ‘peace board’

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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu announcemed the Bulgarian diplomat arsenic the ‘designated’ director-general for Trump’s ‘board of peace’.

Published On 8 Jan 2026

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that erstwhile United Nations Middle East envoy Nickolay Mladenov volition nonstop a projected United States-led “board of peace” successful Gaza.

Netanyahu made the announcement aft gathering Mladenov successful Jerusalem connected Thursday, referring to the Bulgarian diplomat arsenic the “designated” director-general for the projected board, a cardinal portion of US President Donald Trump’s 20-point program to extremity Israel’s genocidal warfare connected the Palestinian radical of Gaza.

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Trump’s Gaza program led to a tenuous ceasefire betwixt Israel and Hamas successful October, but Israeli forces person continued to transportation retired attacks successful the territory connected a near-daily basis. Since the archetypal afloat time of the truce connected October 11, 2025, Israeli attacks person killed astatine slightest 425 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

In a connection connected Thursday, Netanyahu’s bureau said Mladenov “is slated to service arsenic Director General of the ‘Peace Council’ successful the Gaza Strip”. Israel’s President Isaac Herzog besides met Mladenov connected Thursday, a spokesperson from his bureau said, without elaborating.

Under Trump’s program to extremity the war, the projected Board of Peace would supervise a caller technocratic Palestinians government, the disarmament of Hamas, the deployment of an planetary information force, the further pushback of Israeli troops, and the reconstruction of the war-ravaged Gaza Strip.

Trump is expected to denote appointments to the committee adjacent week, according to the Axios quality outlet, citing US officials and sources acquainted with the matter.

“Among the countries expected to articulation the committee are the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Egypt and Turkiye,” Axios reported.

Mladenov, a erstwhile Bulgarian defence and overseas minister, antecedently served arsenic the UN envoy to Iraq earlier being appointed arsenic the UN Middle East bid envoy from 2015 to 2020.

During his clip arsenic Middle East envoy, Mladenov had bully moving relations with Israel and often worked to easiness tensions betwixt Israel and Hamas.