What to know about Gaza working groups and their mandate?

What the report says

Al Jazeera reports that two joint working groups have been created after talks involving US envoy Jared Kushner, officials tied to the Board of Peace, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as the Trump administration seeks to advance its Gaza peace plan. One group is focused on security, disarmament and demilitarisation; the other is intended to handle urgent humanitarian needs such as sanitation, clean water and public health.

According to the article, the security panel’s mandate is to collect and permanently decommission weapons and dismantle Gaza’s tunnel network. The weapons would go to an American-led International Stabilization Force rather than to a Palestinian technocratic body, a detail that critics say raises political and sovereignty concerns. The humanitarian group is meant to address worsening basic services amid warnings of disease outbreaks, but its leadership and operating structure remain unclear.

The report says the US and Israel have tied any wider reconstruction of Gaza to completion of the disarmament track. Kushner said rebuilding would not be allowed until demilitarisation happens, while Netanyahu has said Israeli forces will not withdraw from the so-called Yellow Line before Hamas is disarmed. Al Jazeera notes that this sequencing has drawn criticism from Palestinian analysts and regional mediators, who argue it could sideline Palestinian governance and delay reconstruction in a territory already devastated by war.

The article places the developments in the context of ongoing disputes over how to implement Trump’s 15-point plan and whether disarmament and Israeli withdrawal should proceed in parallel.