Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar will attend the first meeting of US President Donald Trump's Peace Council, scheduled for February 19, Israeli officials said today, the British news agency Reuters reported on its website.
US officials said this week that Trump, at a meeting in Washington, will announce a multi-billion dollar reconstruction plan for the Gaza Strip and outline plans for a UN-approved stabilization force for the Palestinian enclave.
Delegations from at least 20 countries, including some heads of state, are expected to attend the inaugural meeting of the Peace Committee, which was approved by the UN Security Council as part of Trump's plan to end the war in Gaza.
While Middle Eastern states, including Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and developing countries like Indonesia, have joined the new forum, other major world powers and traditional Western ally the United States have been more cautious.
US officials said Thursday's meeting would focus on Gaza, which has been left in ruins by two years of war.
A ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian movement Hamas came into effect in October, after both sides agreed to Donald Trump's plan.
More than 590 Palestinians, many of them civilians, as well as some Israeli soldiers, were killed in the clashes that followed.
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