Israeli Strikes May Undermine Trump’s Peace Plan for Gaza
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- Trump's Board of Peace released a 15-point plan last week calling for Hamas disarmament, an Israeli withdrawal, and a new administration in Gaza, but key details including a disarmament timetable remain unspecified.
- Israeli strikes killed 18 people on Sunday, one of the deadliest days since the troubled October cease-fire; strikes a day earlier killed at least two and damaged medical supply warehouses, and a Monday car strike on a beachside road killed two more.
- Israel has not signed the framework; Prime Minister's Office spokesman Doron Spielman said "the version that has been made public does not reflect Israel's positions," with concerns centered on Hamas disarmament.
- No new Israeli strikes in Gaza have been reported since Monday evening, but the Board of Peace plan risks being undone before specifics are worked out, according to the analysis.
- Nickolay E. Mladenov, the Board of Peace's high representative for Gaza, leveled rare public criticism at Israel over the attacks, signaling a diplomatic split within the framework.
Why it matters: The Board of Peace is publicly championing a 15-point plan that Israel has not signed and whose central disarmament trigger has no timetable — meaning the marquee Gaza initiative could collapse before implementation. Mladenov's rare on-record criticism of Israel, combined with 18 deaths in a single day, exposes the diplomatic gap between Washington's peace architecture and Tel Aviv's military posture on the ground.
