Trump’s Gaza envoy urges finalizing roadmap after Hamas restructures government
Nikolay Mladenov called reshuffle a "bridge between declarations and implementation" — even as Israel keeps blocking aid
GAZA (MNTV) — The lead Gaza envoy for U.S. President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace said Monday that a reshuffle of Hamas’s government made it more urgent to finalize the roadmap for the territory’s postwar administration, describing the move as the link between promises made and promises kept.
Nikolay Mladenov, writing on X, said the reorganization underscored the need to conclude the stalled roadmap talks, calling it “the bridge between declarations and implementation.” Once the remaining provisions are agreed, he said, the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG) can finally take up its duties.
Completing the roadmap, Mladenov added, would also allow the decommissioning of weapons to begin, clear the way for Israeli forces to withdraw from Gaza, and open the door to large-scale reconstruction.
His statement followed Hamas’s announcement earlier Monday that it had dissolved its Emergency Committee and accepted the resignation of its acting government chief — a restructuring the group presented as a step toward eventually handing civil administration to the NCAG.
In practice, Hamas continues to govern through a renamed interim body, and the NCAG, a self-described non-political committee of Palestinian figures that has operated from Cairo since mid-January, has yet to begin working from inside Gaza.
Mladenov’s optimism rests on a process that has barely advanced.
He unveiled a 15-point roadmap on May 21 to implement Trump’s broader plan for Gaza, laying out mechanisms for reconstruction, weapons decommissioning, an Israeli withdrawal, the deployment of an international stabilization force, and the rebuilding of Gaza’s police. It also calls for delivering what was promised at the ceasefire’s start — humanitarian aid, fuel, shelter supplies and the reopening of crossings — before the process moves forward.
The Board of Peace, which Trump chairs, is one of several bodies overseeing Gaza’s transition, alongside the Gaza Executive Council and the NCAG, with a proposed technocratic government still under negotiation in Cairo.
Trump announced his 20-point plan on Sept. 29, 2025, promising an end to the war through the release of Israeli captives, a partial Israeli pullback, a technocratic government, an international stabilization force, and the disarmament of Hamas.
Its first phase took effect Oct. 10. Hamas says it met its obligations under that phase; Israel has not followed through on its own, and its attacks have continued.
That gap is the backdrop to Mladenov’s appeal.
Israel has kept restricting the agreed flow of food, medicine, medical supplies and shelter into Gaza, where roughly 2.4 million Palestinians — 1.5 million of them displaced — endure catastrophic conditions. More than 73,000 people have been killed and over 173,000 wounded in Israel’s genocide since October 2023, according to Gaza’s health authorities.
For all the talk of roadmaps and bridges, it is the failure to deliver on the first and most basic promises — aid, fuel, an open crossing — that continues to define daily life in the territory.
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