Phase Two calls for full demilitarization of Gaza, the creation of a transitional technocratic Palestinian administration to run Gaza (National Committee for the Administration of Gaza/NCAG), reconstruction and an international stabilisation force; it conditions reconstruction and Israeli withdrawal on disarming Hamas and hostage returns. Supporters publicly include the Trump administration and some regional mediators (Egypt, Qatar, Turkey), Israel’s government has accepted parts of the plan, and the Palestinian Authority expressed conditional support; Hamas has only partially agreed to some elements (notably technocratic governance) and has refused to fully disarm.
Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan is the United Arab Emirates’ long‑time Minister of Foreign Affairs (and serves as a senior UAE deputy prime minister in this readout); he is the UAE’s chief diplomat who sets and conducts the country’s foreign policy, represents the UAE in international diplomacy, and leads the ministry that manages its bilateral and multilateral relations.
The Houthi movement (Ansar Allah) is an armed Zaidi Shia political‑military group from northern Yemen that has fought the Yemeni government and the Saudi‑led coalition since the 2010s. Multiple international reports and intelligence assessments document Iranian support to the Houthis — including weapons transfers (missiles, UAVs), training and financial assistance — which is the basis for describing them as “Iranian‑backed,” though the Houthis retain local command and political autonomy and Tehran disputes that it directly controls their operations.
A humanitarian ceasefire in Sudan would require a verified stop to fighting, protected humanitarian corridors and safe access for aid, suspension of attacks on civilians and medical sites, release/evacuation and safe passage for the wounded and displaced, and monitoring/verification mechanisms. The main parties whose agreement is required are the two principal warring sides — the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) led by Gen. Abdel Fattah al‑Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) led by Gen. Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (Hemedti) — plus armed local militias; implementation also depends on regional and international actors and monitors (AU, UN, neighbouring states) to secure and verify compliance.
U.S.–UAE coordination typically includes intelligence‑sharing and counterterrorism cooperation, bilateral and multilateral military cooperation (training, exercises, basing access, arms sales), maritime and air security operations, diplomatic coordination on regional crises (Yemen, Libya, Gaza, Sudan), and economic/financial cooperation to counter illicit finance — undertaken through regular diplomatic channels, defence-to-defence contacts, and regional forums.
Tommy Pigott is the State Department’s Principal Deputy Spokesperson; a readout ‘attributable to’ the Principal Deputy Spokesperson is an official State Department summary of a meeting or call and is an authoritative public record of the U.S. government’s stated view, though readouts are summaries and may omit full detail of private conversations.