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The foreign ministers of eight countries, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Jordan, Indonesia, Pakistan, Türkiye, Saudi Arabia and Egypt, issued a joint statement condemning Israel's rejection of a 15-point Gaza roadmap put forward by the Board of Peace, a body chaired by US President Donald Trump.
The ministers said Israel's stance "amounts to a direct repudiation of the Comprehensive Plan, jeopardizes its implementation, and fundamentally undermines the collective efforts undertaken to achieve a just and lasting peace."
They added that the rejection "confirms that Israel now bears responsibility for obstructing the efforts to bring peace in Gaza and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory."
According to the statement, the roadmap had already been accepted by Palestinian factions and represented the outcome of extensive efforts by international mediators.
The ministers described it as a "vital milestone" for a set of coordinated steps: the decommissioning of weapons alongside the withdrawal of Israeli forces, the deployment of an International Stabilization Force, the transfer of administrative authority to a National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, and the reconstruction of the territory.
The eight countries did not detail what specific consequences, if any, they intend to pursue in response to Israel's position.
The joint statement follows Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's public rejection of the 15-point document, which he confirmed to his Cabinet, stating plainly that Israel does not accept it.
Netanyahu has said Israeli forces will not withdraw from Gaza until Hamas is fully disarmed, and has separately reaffirmed his opposition to the creation of a Palestinian state.
The Board of Peace was established in early 2026 to oversee implementation of a broader US-brokered framework that had produced a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas the previous October, along with an exchange of Israeli hostages and Palestinian detainees.
That framework had called for Hamas to surrender its weapons and cede administrative control of Gaza to a technocratic Palestinian body, in exchange for an Israeli withdrawal and an internationally backed reconstruction effort.
The 15-point document at the center of the current dispute was intended to set out the next phase of that process.
The eight signatories to Sunday's statement, spanning the Gulf, the broader Middle East and South and Southeast Asia, have previously issued joint statements on Gaza, including one welcoming the original US peace framework when it was unveiled last year.
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