Representatives of Trump-appointed BoP director general Nickolay Mladenov submitted an official request for permission to the IDF, KAN stated.Follow us on GoogleOfficials listen to presentations on the work of the Gaza Executive Board during the inaugural meeting of the Board of Peace at the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace on February 19, 2026 in Washington, DC. (photo credit: SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images)ByGOLDIE KATZMAY 28, 2026 05:06Representatives from US President Donald Trump’s Gaza Board of Peace (BoP) are preparing to visit the Gaza Strip for the first time in the coming days, according to a KAN News report on Wednesday.Representatives of Trump-appointed BoP director general Nickolay Mladenov submitted an official request for IDF approval ahead of the visit, KAN stated.Last week, Mladenov published the core elements of his 15-point roadmap for the implementation of Trump’s peace plan for Gaza on X/Twitter.In the roadmap, Mladenov emphasized that the objective of the plan is to “move Gaza out of a permanent cycle of war and humanitarian collapse toward recovery, reconstruction and Palestinian self-governance.”IDF kills Hamas heads resisting disarmamentHe also outlined that Hamas will be disarmed in phases, via a Palestinian-led and internationally verified process, with Israeli troops withdrawing from Gaza over an agreed-upon timeline.Terrorists from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad stand on a street during Eid al-Fitr in Gaza City, March 20, 2026. (credit: REUTERS/DAWOUD ABU ALKAS)A BoP source told KAN that Hamas is refusing to face the fact that it must disarm.“We consider the elimination of senior figures in the terrorist organization's military wing to be part of the process of disarming Hamas," the source added.Since May 15, the IDF has killed both the head of Hamas's military wing, Izz ad-Din al-Haddad, and his successor, Mohammed Ouda.On Wednesday, the IDF announced that it had killed two more "central Hamas terrorists,” with Army Radio's Doron Kadosh reporting that the two targets had been the Northern Gaza Brigade commander and the Gaza City Brigade deputy commander.Jerusalem Post Staff, Yonah Jeremy Bob, and Corinne Baum contributed to this report.Follow us on Google