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In a development that could reshape the endgame architecture of the Gaza conflict, Israel's Diplomatic-Security Cabinet voted Sunday to approve the legal and operational framework allowing a multinational peacekeeping force — branded by the Trump administration as the "Board of Peace" — to deploy inside Gaza, according to Israel Hayom and Reuters. The vote passed over the objection of National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who voted against and was in the minority.
Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar summarized the position of the governing majority with characteristic pragmatism: "This is an international plan. It may not succeed, but we should not be the ones to undermine it." Minister Zeev Elkin tied the approval to a prior commitment: that once hostages were released, Israel would permit international forces into Gaza. Ben-Gvir rejected the framing entirely. "Hamas has not met its commitment to disarm and demilitarize the Gaza Strip," he said, "and therefore we are not bound by the agreement either." His preferred solution, he reiterated, remains "encouraging emigration."
The Board of Peace has been quietly building logistics infrastructure for weeks. Israel Hayom reported last month that the organization had already rented warehouses along the border to distribute aid without using UN agencies, and established a semi-military staging camp to house the multinational contingent. The US-backed plan aims to sever Hamas's control over the civilian population by introducing reconstruction into designated humanitarian zones demonstrably free of the organization's armed presence — a sequencing Hamas has consistently rejected by refusing to disarm.
Netanyahu departed for Washington on Monday and is scheduled to meet with President Trump at the White House on Tuesday, per The Hindu and multiple wire reports. The visit is Netanyahu's first return to Washington in five months and arrives loaded with agenda items: the Gaza multinational force, the still-evolving US-Iran ceasefire situation, the Strait of Hormuz's future status, Lebanese security arrangements, and the nascent Saudi-Israel normalization framework. Haaretz reported Sunday that Netanyahu arrives with deliberate concessions on Gaza and Lebanon designed to demonstrate cooperation with Trump — while simultaneously pushing hard for the US to resume or escalate military action against Iran, a position Washington's munitions math currently makes difficult to deliver.
Ben-Gvir's public dissent is a political variable worth watching. He remains inside the coalition but outside the consensus on this vote, and has not ruled out using the multinational force deployment as a justification for withdrawing from the government. Whether the Board of Peace force can actually deploy without Hamas interference — and whether the multinational contributors can be assembled given competing European and American priorities — remains very much an open question heading into Tuesday's Trump-Netanyahu summit.
