Trump to chair ‘large meeting’ on post-war Gaza: US envoy
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US President Donald Trump will host a meeting on Aug 27 on post-war plans for Gaza.
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WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump will host a meeting on Aug 27 on post-war plans for Gaza, his envoy Steve Witkoff said on Aug 26.
“We’ve got a large meeting in the White House tomorrow, chaired by the president, and it’s a very comprehensive plan we’re putting together on the next day,” Mr Witkoff said in a Fox News interview, without providing more details.
He was asked if there was “a plan for a day after in Gaza”, referencing the end of Israel’s war in the Palestinian territory that began in October 2023.
Mr Trump stunned the world earlier in 2025 when he suggested the US should take control of the Gaza Strip
Mr Trump said the US would remove rubble and unexploded bombs and turn Gaza into the “Riviera of the Middle East”.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the proposal, which was heavily criticised by many European and Arab states.
Mr Witkoff did not elaborate on the plan he touted on Aug 26, but said he believed that people would “see how robust it is and how it’s, how well meaning, it is”.
The war in Gaza was sparked by Hamas’s October 2023 attack on Israel, which resulted in the deaths of 1,219 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official figures.
Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed at least 62,819 Palestinians, most of them civilians, according to figures from the Health Ministry in Hamas-run Gaza that the United Nations considers reliable. AFP
