Israel, Hamas bide their time as Gaza peace plan stalls
As the Israel-Hamas ceasefire approaches the one-year mark in October, the Board of Peace is under pressure to deliver results in the Gaza Strip.
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WASHINGTON — Half a year into the Board of Peace’s mission, its top official for the Gaza Strip is tempering expectations.
“Peace requires hard work,” the board’s High Representative for Gaza, Nickolay Mladenov, wrote on X Tuesday. “It is won slowly, through negotiations that run for months and rarely end exactly as anyone wanted.”
Mladenov’s message, which made no mention of Israel or Hamas, landed as the US-led body is under growing pressure to implement the next phase of the peace deal President Donald Trump unveiled last fall.
