Kushner, Blair, Mladenov Head to Middle East to Salvage Stalled Gaza Peace Plan

August 14, 2026 — Board of Peace officials confirmed that Jared Kushner, high representative Nickolay Mladenov, and executive board member Tony Blair would arrive in Israel and then travel to Cairo, where a Palestinian technocratic committee slated to administer Gaza under the ceasefire framework has been meeting. The trip is an effort to rescue the 15-point Board of Peace roadmap after Prime Minister Netanyahu's August 9 rejection of the plan and his insistence that the IDF will not withdraw until Hamas is 'genuinely disarmed.' Hamas has said it accepts the disarmament sequencing in principle but continues to condition compliance on guarantees over ceasefire terms, Israeli withdrawal, aid access, and reconstruction — leaving the fundamental sequencing dispute unresolved even as senior US-aligned mediators re-engage directly.