Since its announcement on October 9, President Donald Trump’s ceasefire and stabilization plan for the Gaza Strip has garnered widespread international support for having ended more than two years of horrific war that resulted in deaths of nearly 70,000 Palestinians, including more than 18,000 children, displaced more than 90% of Gaza’s population and wiped out most of its infrastructure. Although Palestinians were not consulted in its development, the plan calls for the creation of an International Stabilization Force to be deployed to the Gaza Strip and an international Board of Peace to manage its internal affairs, including future governance, security and reconstruction, while providing only a limited role for Palestinians themselves.
Meanwhile, Trump’s controversial plan, which was adopted by the United Nations Security Council on November 17, is off to a shaky start as Israel continues to bomb Gaza almost daily, killing more than 340 Palestinians since the ceasefire began. Nearly all of Gaza’s two million inhabitants remain concentrated in less than half of its territory under dire conditions and lacking basic services. Is the current ceasefire plan sustainable? How should Palestinians engage with the Trump plan? What are the prospects of a Gaza stabilization plan that expressly excludes Palestinians?
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Join us for a timely and important discussion with:
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Carol Daniel-Kasbari
Carol Daniel-Kasbari, Ph.D., is a non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute and senior associate director of the Conflict Resolution Program at The Carter Center. A seasoned scholar-practitioner with over 25 years of experience, she brings deep expertise in conflict resolution, peacebuilding, and development in fragile and conflict-affected environments.
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Mouin Rabbani
Mouin Rabbani is co-editor of Jadaliyya, an online magazine focused on the Middle East, is a researcher and analyst specializing in Palestinian affairs, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the contemporary Middle East. He has served as Senior Analyst/Middle East and Special Advisor on Israel-Palestine with the International Crisis Group.
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Muhammad Shehada
Muhammad Shehada is the chief of communications and program at the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor as well as a visiting fellow with the European Council on Foreign Relations’ Middle East and North Africa program. He is a Gazan researcher, writer, and human rights advocate. His work focuses on investigating human rights violations in Gaza and the West Bank.
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Khaled Elgindy (Moderator)
Khaled Elgindy is a senior research fellow at the Quincy Institute and adjunct instructor at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. He is the author of Blind Spot: America and the Palestinians, from Balfour to Trump (2019). Elgindy previously held positions at the Middle East Institute and the Brookings Institution.
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