{"id":12315,"date":"2026-01-14T18:40:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=12315"},"modified":"2026-01-14T18:40:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T18:40:24","slug":"us-announces-start-of-phase-two-of-trumps-gaza-peace-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=12315","title":{"rendered":"US announces start of phase two of Trump&#8217;s Gaza peace plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">US envoy Steve Witkoff has announced the start of phase two of President Donald Trump&#8217;s plan to end the war in Gaza, with a technocratic Palestinian government established in the territory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">He said the second phase would also see the reconstruction and full demilitarisation of Gaza, including the disarmament of Hamas and other Palestinian groups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;The US expects Hamas to comply fully with its obligations,&#8221; he warned, noting these include the return of the body of the last dead Israeli hostage. &#8220;Failure to do so will bring serious consequences.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Under phase one, Hamas and Israel agreed a ceasefire in October, as well as a hostage-prisoner exchange, a partial Israeli withdrawal, and an aid surge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The formation of Gaza&#8217;s 15-person transitional government, known as the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG), was earlier announced by Egypt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">It will operate under the supervision of a &#8220;Board of Peace&#8221;, which will be chaired by Trump, <a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c70155nked7o\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the 20-point plan unveiled by the president three months ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The Gaza war was triggered by the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">More than 71,430 people have been killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza since then, according to the territory&#8217;s Hamas-run health ministry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#announces #start #phase #Trumps #Gaza #peace #plan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US envoy Steve Witkoff has ann&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}