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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Maira Butt

Tony Blair ‘puts forward plan to lead interim government in Gaza’

The White House is supporting a plan to have Sir Tony Blair lead a temporary administration to govern the Gaza Strip, according to reports.

The former prime minister would lead a supervisory body called the Gaza International Transitional Authority (Gita), which would serve as the “supreme political and legal authority” for up to five years, and is understood to exclude the Palestinian Authority (PA).

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