WASHINGTON/CAIRO/GAZA/JERUSALEM - The White House on Friday officially announced the names of the members of the Board of Peace for Gaza in a statement.

US President Donald Trump will serve as chairman. The board members include US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff, Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, said the statement.

Trump said Thursday the Board of Peace for Gaza has been established, with the members of the board to be announced shortly. 

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Meanwhile, a newly-formed Palestinian technocratic committee to temporarily administer the post-war Gaza officially launched its work on Friday, the committee's head Ali Abdel Hamid Shaath told Egypt's state-run Al-Qahera News in an interview.

According to Shaath, the 15-member committee, with a priority on Gaza's "humanitarian file," held its first meeting in Cairo on Friday. The committee arrived on Thursday, delayed by a day due to Israeli obstruction, an Egyptian source told Xinhua.

The committee will work during a two-year transitional period to provide relief and urgent care for the most needy groups, especially women, children and the sick, said Shaath, a veteran engineer and former deputy planning minister in the Palestinian Authority.

He said the committee "will do its best to implement the provisions of the peace plan and alleviate the impact of the living crisis in the Gaza Strip."

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Meanwhile, in remarks to a Palestinian radio station, Shaath said the committee plans to supply about 200,000 prefabricated housing units as an initial step. He also proposed a three-year plan to address war debris by burying part of it off Gaza's coast, adding that Gaza could be "better than before" within seven years through comprehensive reconstruction efforts.

The committee is not a military force but a professional body focused on reconstruction and administration, relying on expertise rather than arms, he stressed.

The committee was formed on Wednesday to temporarily administer the post-war Gaza, as the US administration announced the launch of the second phase of its Gaza peace plan. On the same day, the Palestinian presidency announced its support for the committee.

On Thursday, Hamas reaffirmed its readiness to hand over the administration of Gaza to the committee and to facilitate its mission.

Israel says hit Hamas, PIJ commanders

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Israel's domestic security agency Shin Bet (ISA) said jointly on Thursday evening that their strikes across Gaza on Wednesday hit operatives from Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), accusing them of "serious violation" of the October Gaza ceasefire deal.

They said the strikes were carried out after gunmen opened fire earlier this week on Israeli troops in western Rafah.

The announcement came amid reports that Mahmoud al-Huli, a senior commander in Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades, was killed on Wednesday along with five others in an Israeli strike in central Gaza's city of Deir al-Balah, and that Ahraf al-Khatib, a commander in the PIJ's al-Quds Brigades, was killed on Wednesday along with his wife in an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza's Nuseirat refugee camp.

On Thursday evening, senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan confirmed al-Huli's death in a statement, condemning the Israeli strike as "a dangerous escalation."