{"id":23669,"date":"2026-02-12T08:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T06:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/israel-has-joined-trumps-board-of-peace\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:26","slug":"israel-has-joined-trumps-board-of-peace","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/israel-has-joined-trumps-board-of-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel has joined Trump&#8217;s &#8216;Board of Peace&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Israel has joined United States (US) President Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;Board of Peace&#8221; initiative, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday during his visit to Washington where he met Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Visuals released earlier on Wednesday after the Netanyahu and Rubio meeting showed them holding a document, opens new tab with Netanyahu&#8217;s signature on Israel joining the board.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Netanyahu said on X he &#8220;signed Israel&#8217;s accession as a member of the &#8220;Board of Peace.&#8221;&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>He later discussed Iran with Trump. A United Nations (UN) Security Council resolution, adopted in mid-November, authorised the board and countries working with it to establish an international stabilisation force in Gaza, where a fragile ceasefire began in October under a Trump plan on which Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas signed off.<\/div>\n<div>Under Trump&#8217;s Gaza plan, the board was meant to supervise Gaza&#8217;s temporary governance.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Trump thereafter said the board, with him as Chairperson, would be expanded to tackle global conflicts.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The board will hold its first meeting on February 19 in Washington to discuss Gaza&#8217;s reconstruction.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Many rights experts say that Trump overseeing a board to supervise a foreign territory&#8217;s affairs resembled a colonial structure.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Israel&#8217;s presence on the board is expected to bring further criticism as the board does not include a Palestinian.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Countries have reacted cautiously to Trump&#8217;s invitation to join the board launched in late January.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Many experts are concerned the board could undermine the UN.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15056,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-23669","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"Israel has joined US President Donald Trump's \"Board of Peace\"","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26566,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23669\/revisions\/26566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=23669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}