JERUSALEM/CAIRO (Reuters) – The U.S.-backed Palestinian committee established to take control of Gaza from Hamas opened applications for a police force for the enclave on Thursday, as President Donald Trump convened the inaugural meeting of his international Board of Peace.
Some 2,000 Palestinians signed up for the police force in the first hours after applications went live, Nikolay Mladenov, the Trump-appointed envoy overseeing post-war coordination in Gaza, told the Board of Peace meeting.
Jasper Jeffers, an Army Major General who was appointed commander of a U.N.-authorized multinational peacekeeping force for Gaza, told the meeting that the force’s long-term plan is to train some 12,000 police officers for Gaza.
Trump announced billions of dollars of contributions for Gaza’s reconstruction and his administration detailed plans for a U.N.-authorized stabilization force for the territory at the meeting in Washington. Establishing security in Gaza is one of many formidable hurdles.
The National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG) said in a statement on X that a recruitment process “is open to qualified men and women who wish to serve in the police force”.
Applicants must be residents of Gaza aged 18-35, have no criminal record, and be in good physical shape, it said
