World leaders weigh joining Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ for Gaza

World leaders were weighing whether to join President Trump’s newly proposed “Board of Peace” to help implement his postwar vision for the Gaza Strip, and at least three countries — Canada, Egypt and Turkey — said they had received invitations. Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada was formally asked on Friday to join the Board of Peace, a senior Canadian official said Saturday, and the official, speaking anonymously in accordance with protocol, said Mr.

Carney planned to accept. Egypt and Turkey, both mediators during the Gaza war, also said they had received invitations; Egypt’s foreign minister Badr Abdelatty said his country was weighing the matter, and Turkish government spokesman Burhanettin Duran said Mr. Trump had sent a letter to Mr.

Erdogan inviting him to join. Mr. Trump called the body “the Greatest and Most Prestigious Board ever assembled at any time, any place,” in a post on Truth Social. Under his peace plan, now enshrined in a U.N. Security Council resolution, the board is supposed to help carry out the next steps in the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas.

The board’s full membership has not been announced; the White House has instead named two executive committees to work beneath the board, including one focused on Gaza that lists Tony Blair and Israeli businessman Yakir Gabay but no Palestinians, and a third committee of Palestinian technocrats to oversee public services in Gaza.

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