Vice President Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, special envoy Steve Witkoff, Kushner, and Blair joined senior officials for a more-than-hour White House meeting on Gaza planning. Kushner and Blair presented governance and investment proposals intended to enable reconstruction and sought presidential approval for further use by Witkoff and Rubio. Trump summoned Dermer to obtain Israeli needs and red lines for a day-after scenario. Dermer outlined Israel's operational plan, insisted Israel does not seek permanent occupation or population expulsion, and said Israel wants Gaza handed to an authority that is not Hamas if Israeli conditions are met. No clear decisions emerged.
Kushner and Blair presented ideas they had discussed previously with Witkoff and others, but never with Trump himself. "They tried to give an idea of how Gaza could be governed and how you create an environment for investment so that reconstruction can happen. The goal was to run the ideas by Trump to see if he likes them and want to move forward, so that Witkoff and Rubio can use them," a source with direct knowledge said.
Dermer was in the White House to present Rubio and Witkoff with Israel's operational plan for occupying Gaza City and for a humanitarian surge during the operation, two sources with direct knowledge said. According to the source, Dermer made clear that Israel doesn't want to occupy Gaza for good and doesn't want to expel the Palestinian population, despite proposals from some in the government to do both. He stressed that Israel wants to hand over Gaza to someone else who is not Hamas.
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