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Sunday, October 12, 2025
PA chief’s deputy meets Tony Blair to discuss truce and Gaza’s reconstruction
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s deputy says he has met with former UK leader Tony Blair, who is expected to lead a transitional postwar Gaza body, to discuss “the ceasefire and start of recovery and reconstruction” in the Strip.
Hussein Al-Sheikh says on X that the pair discussed “the day after the war and efforts aimed at making [US] President [Donald] Trump’s plan, which aims at stopping the war and establishing lasting peace in the region, a success.
“We have confirmed our readiness to work with President Trump, Mr. Blair and the partners to consolidate the ceasefire, the entry of aid, the release of hostages and prisoners, and then start with the recovery and reconstruction,” he adds, asserting that “the undermining of the Palestinian Authority” must stop, giving as an example Israel opposing the two-state solution and withholding tax revenues from the PA over its monthly stipends to prisoners, including terrorists, and to families of dead attackers.
Today I met with Mr. Tony Blair to discuss the day after the war and efforts aimed at making President Trump's plan which aims at stopping the war and establishing lasting peace in the region a success. We have confirmed our readiness to work with President Trump, Mr. Blair and…
— حسين الشيخ Hussein Al Sheikh (@HusseinSheikhpl) October 12, 2025
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