Representatives from US President Donald Trump’s Gaza Board of Peace (BoP) are preparing to visit the Gaza Strip for the first time in the coming days, according to a KAN News report on Wednesday.
Representatives of Trump-appointed BoP director general Nickolay Mladenov submitted an official request for IDF approval ahead of the visit, KAN stated.
Last week, Mladenov published the core elements of his 15-point roadmap for the implementation of Trump’s peace plan for Gaza on X/Twitter.
In the roadmap, Mladenov emphasized that the objective of the plan is to “move Gaza out of a permanent cycle of war and humanitarian collapse toward recovery, reconstruction and Palestinian self-governance.”
IDF kills Hamas heads resisting disarmament
He also outlined that Hamas will be disarmed in phases, via a Palestinian-led and internationally verified process, with Israeli troops withdrawing from Gaza over an agreed-upon timeline.
A BoP source told KAN that Hamas is refusing to face the fact that it must disarm.
“We consider the elimination of senior figures in the terrorist organization’s military wing to be part of the process of disarming Hamas,” the source added.
Since May 15, the IDF has killed both the head of Hamas’s military wing, Izz ad-Din al-Haddad, and his successor, Mohammed Ouda.
On Wednesday, the IDF announced that it had killed two more “central Hamas terrorists,” with Army Radio’s Doron Kadosh reporting that the two targets had been the Northern Gaza Brigade commander and the Gaza City Brigade deputy commander.
Jerusalem Post Staff, Yonah Jeremy Bob, and Corinne Baum contributed to this report.
