Tony Blair joins Gaza Summit, involvement in Gaza governance unclear

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair is attending the Gaza summit in Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh.

US President Donald Trump has suggested that Blair would potentially helm a transitional authority to oversee the governance of Gaza.

However, Trump told reporters earlier on Monday that he wants to "find out that he is an acceptable choice to everybody".

Hamas has warned that Blair would not be welcome in any role governing Gaza.

"When it comes to Tony Blair, unfortunately, we Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims, and maybe others around the world have bad memories of him," Hamas official Basem Naim told Sky News.

"We can still remember his role in killing, causing thousands or millions of deaths to innocent civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq."

On Sunday, Hussein al-Sheikh, the deputy president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), met Blair in the Jordanian capital Amman, where he expressed a readiness to work with the former UK prime minister.

His comments came less than a week after the PA's justice minister, Sharhabeel al-Zaeem, slammed Blair's involvement, saying: "Is this the independent Palestinian state we are aiming for?

"All these struggles for all these years in order to have Mr Blair, who failed in London, who failed in Britain, who failed in Iraq, come and - with all due respect at a personal level to Mr Blair - be our guardian as if we were minors?" he said.