TNA Staff
The New Arab / January 12, 2026
Trump is set to announce the Board of Peace members for Gaza’s reconstruction plan on Tuesday, while another Palestinian man dies in Israeli detention.
US President Donald Trump will reportedly announce a Board of Peace for Gaza on Tuesday, as part of his post-war plan for the battered enclave, the Palestinian academic and Arab Americans for Peace head Bishara Bahbah said.
The Board of Peace, which will be led by Trump, will include 15 world leaders, before a technocratic Palestinian government is formed to oversee the reconstruction of Gaza.
Bahbah told Asharq al-Awsat that several leaders from the Arab world will participate in the Board of Peace, including Qatar and Egypt – key mediator countries in ceasefire negotiations between Israel and Hamas – as well as the United Arab Emirates.
The UK, US, Germany, and Italy will also likely be part of this board, he added.
The announcement is reportedly scheduled to take place on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Bahbah, who is Palestinian-American and who worked with the Trump administration to facilitate negotiations with Hamas, said the Palestinian technocratic government will be announced several days after Tuesday.
He said the names likely to form the committee had faced objections from the Israeli side, but a “consensus was reached” following a visit to Israel and Ramallah by the Board of Peace’s nominee for director, Bulgarian Nickolay Mladenov.
Bahbah added that a meeting of Palestinian factions will also take place in Cairo this week, where the names of the Palestinian technocratic committee will be announced.
Despite a ceasefire in place since 10 October 2025, Israel has carried out near-daily strikes on Gaza, killing Palestinians almost daily. Over 71,000 Palestinians have been killed since October 2023, when Israel began its military onslaught.
Another detainee from Gaza dies in Israeli custody
In Gaza, Palestinian prisoner organisations confirmed on Sunday the death of detainee Hamza Abdullah Abdul-Hadi Adwan, aged 67.
Adwan reportedly died on 9 September 2025, but was only announced by the Israeli prison authorities this week despite the months that have passed since.
In a statement, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club said Adwan was arrested at a military checkpoint on 12 November 2024. He was married and a father of nine, with two of his children killed by Israel before October 2023.
His family said that he suffered from a heart condition, and was likely denied medical care while in Israeli custody.
Over 100 Palestinians have died in Israeli prisons since the outbreak of the war on Gaza in October 2023. Scores of detainees have been subject to torture, sexual abuse, deprivation of food and water, and medical negligence.
Around 1,300 detainees from Gaza are still held in Israeli prisons as of January 2026, while the total number of prisoners in Israeli jails exceeds 9,300, including 3,385 administrative detainees.
Surge in Jewish settler attacks
In the West Bank, Israeli forces continued their daily raids and violence against Palestinians.
The Israeli army injured 20 Palestinians and arrested two others during a military operation in the city of Nablus in the occupied territory on Sunday. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society stated that its teams treated 20 injuries, including three gunshot wounds, one injury resulting from physical assault, and 15 cases of tear gas inhalation treated on-site.
Israeli special forces infiltrated the Qaryoun neighbourhood within the Old City of Nablus, eye witnesses said, which was followed by a large-scale incursion into the city from several directions.
Those arrested were identified as Louay Shaaban and Hamido Zakari.
The incursion also saw scores of worshippers trapped inside the Al-Satoun Mosque since dawn prayers, when the raid started. The PRCS had to coordinate their evacuation with the International Committee of the Red Cross.
On Saturday, soldiers shot dead 58-year-old Shaker Falah Ahmed Al-Jaabari in Hebron.
His body is still being held by Israeli forces.
At least 1,029 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli army and Jewish settlers since 7 October 2023, in parallel with the deadly war on Gaza.
This comes as attacks by settlers in 2025 against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank increased by 25 percent compared to the year before, according to data from the Israeli military on Monday.
Jewish settler attacks amounted to at least 845, in which 200 people were injured, and four were killed, the data showed.
Settler attacks increased significantly around the start of the olive harvest season in the West Bank, with attacks on farmers and land owners, as well as the theft and destruction of olive groves, trees, and farmland.
Such attacks also increased due to incitement and encouragement of such by far-right Israeli politicians, including National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, the Minister of Finance.
