Britain is to offer its experience of disarming the IRA in Northern Ireland in talks over Hamas decommissioning its weapons, it has emerged.
Sir Keir Starmer is understood to be keen to use the lessons of the Northern Ireland peace process as negotiations between Israel and Hamas reach the second stage of Donald Trump’s plan to end the war in Gaza.
Downing Street said that the UK “stands ready to play a leadership role in the process of decommissioning Hamas, then supporting the reconstruction of Gaza and participating in the ceasefire monitoring mission”.
While plans are at an early stage with no firm details, No10 said the UK would be “doing everything we can” to support the disarming of Hamas after 40 years of violence against Israel.
Jonathan Powell, Starmer’s national security adviser, played a key role in negotiating the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland three decades ago and has been closely involved in the UK government efforts to support the Gaza peace plan brokered by Trump.
Powell, who is also under fire over his role in the collapse of the China spies case, has been in contact with Trump’s Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff almost daily.
The Prime Minister joined fellow world leaders including Trump at the Sharm El Sheikh peace summit in Egypt on Monday.
Blair expected to take role in running Gaza
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair at a world leaders’ summit on ending the Gaza war in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. (Photo by Suzanne Plunkett – Pool / Getty Images)Tony Blair, who is set to take a role on the new post-war Board of Peace in Gaza, was also heavily involved in Northern Ireland peace negotiations as prime minister in 1998.
The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said: “Every situation is different, but there is now a key discussion to be had on decommissioning Hamas, ensuring they lay down their weapons alongside obviously the deployment of the ceasefire monitoring mission and international security force and the implementation of transitional governance arrangements in Gaza, and we have said that we are willing to play a leading role in that.”
Under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement, paramilitary groups from both the republican and loyalist sides agreed to decommission their weapons.
An Independent International Commission on Decommissioning was set up to oversee the process. It eventually took four years between the groups beginning to disarm to their weapons being put out of use.
Britain is not planning to put boots on the ground in Israel or Gaza but is offering help with other forms of support for the ceasefire monitoring mission led by the US, including planning and implementation of the force.
Germany and France called for the UN to have a role in a new international stabilising force to oversee the ceasefire.
Starmer’s spokesman said: “We will obviously give our backing to the deployment of a cease fire monitoring mission, an international security force, and the implementation of transitional governance arrangements in Gaza.
“We stand ready to support planning and implementation of that.”
UK to lead on reconstruction
The UK government is also leading on plans to kickstart reconstruction of Gaza’s towns and cities, with the Foreign Office hosting the first of a two-day summit at its offshoot of Wilton Park on Monday.
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Starmer’s official spokesman said the Wilton Park summit was bringing together a coalition of representatives from businesses, civil society and governments “to convene the crucial planning and coordination efforts for post war Gaza”.
Discussions will also cover efforts to support the Palestinian Authority’s own transformation and reform program to ensure it can support Gaza’s recovery “with absolutely no role for Hamas”.
Representatives from countries including Germany, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority were present, alongside private sector and international development finance and financiers, including the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the World Bank.
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