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President Donald Trump\u2019s so-called \u201cBoard of Peace\u201d met in Cyprus this week to revive the board after months of inaction. The board\u2019s main decision out of the meetings has been to separate Palestinians into \u201chumanitarian corridors\u201d that enable Israel to continue its takeover of Gaza.<\/p>\n

Over two days of talks on Tuesday and Wednesday, representatives of the poorly-named \u201cBoard of Peace\u201d created a plan to open \u201cHamas-free\u201d zones in Gaza where aid will be distributed. <\/p>\n

According to reporting by Israel Hayom<\/em> \u2013 <\/em>an Israeli newspaper that supports Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu \u2013 the board will establish areas in Gaza that it will \u201cdirect\u201d Palestinian civilians to move into. Its plan entails increasingly separating Palestinian civilians from Hamas \u2013 a task that will likely be difficult if not impossible. Hamas\u2019s armed wing is only one part of the much broader political organization that has governed Gaza and come to represent the resistance movement against Israel for many Palestinians. <\/p>\n

The board has selected the Tel Sultan neighborhood in Rafah as the first area where it will \u201cdirect\u201d Palestinians in Gaza to enter in the coming weeks. Israel Hayom <\/em>states that multinational forces under the board\u2019s control will arrive in the area with \u201cnonlethal weapons\u201d in order to \u201cmaintain order in the humanitarian zones\u201d while the Israeli military will expand its control over other areas of Gaza. <\/p>\n

These so-called \u201chumanitarian zones\u201d are enclaves facilitating the further concentration of Palestinians in Gaza into smaller and smaller areas as Israel deepens its control over the Strip. <\/p>\n

In late May, Netanyahu announced that he had directed the Israeli military to seize 70 percent of Gaza, and that this was only the next step in taking control of the Strip. Palestinians in Gaza have for months witnessed Israel\u2019s \u201cyellow line\u201d moving westward, forcing people to concentrate in smaller areas of Gaza as Israel takes more control of the territory. <\/p>\n

The newspaper also says that the board has decided that no concrete will be brought into Gaza to enable reconstruction during this period, but only \u201ctemporary reconstruction\u201d will take place, while \u201cmedical and other services\u201d will be provided to those who enter the zones. This is yet another indication that the board has no intention of rebuilding Gaza according to the needs of the Palestinian population. <\/p>\n

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The zones, armed by international forces loyal to the board, call to mind the horrors of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a U.S. and Israel-backed \u201caid\u201d organization that bypassed United Nations (UN) aid agencies and used private armed contractors to distribute aid in Gaza last year. The military contractors repeatedly opened fire and shot and killed hundreds of Palestinians desperately seeking food.<\/p>\n

The goal of these \u201czones\u201d is, supposedly, to begin the process of transitioning Gaza to its next phase, while encouraging Palestinians to leave Hamas-run areas with the incentive of reconstruction, aid, and shelter. While Palestinians in Gaza will likely be wary of another armed \u201chumanitarian\u201d setup after the horrors of the Gazan Humanitarian Foundation, these zones will also serve to pull Palestinians further away from the promise of returning to their homes and neighborhoods that Israel\u2019s genocide has forced them to leave behind. During each major ceasefire in 2023 and 2025, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians marched back to their homes. Palestinians are unlikely to heed a forcible relocation process ushered in with another promise of aid, this time engineered by Trump\u2019s \u201cBoard of Peace.\u201d <\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the \u201cBoard of Peace\u201d posted on X, writing that \u201cUNRWA [the UN\u2019s Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees] has no place in the new Gaza. We are turning the page on the complex of perpetual aid dependency & conflict. The people of Gaza deserve better.\u201d The post also re-published a statement by the U.S. mission to the UN conflating pledges to UNRWA with \u201cFund[ing] incitement\u201d and \u201cterrorism.\u201d <\/p>\n

The board was created in part to bypass the UN in Gaza; these statements regurgitate Trump and Israel\u2019s demonization of the UN and its agencies in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. Though the board criticizes the \u201ccomplex of perpetual aid dependency & conflict,\u201d the offer they are giving to Palestinians in Gaza is even more dehumanizing \u2013 forced relocation and concentration in enclaves, a refusal to meet their wants and needs, including for basic rebuilding, and aid tied to the promise of abandonment of a Palestinian national project. <\/p>\n

Last week, The Guardian<\/em> obtained a leaked draft resolution revealing that the board is planning to grant legal immunity to each of its members \u2013 immunity from \u201carrest, detention or legal proceedings in the courts or other entities in Gaza.\u201d The resolution also says that the board will be \u201cprovided\u201d public property in Gaza, \u201cfree of charge.\u201d <\/p>\n

In mid-June, Hillary Clinton wrote an op-ed calling for opponents to fall in line with the \u201cBoard of Peace,\u201d entitled \u201cThe World May Not Like Trump\u2019s Gaza Plan\u2013 But There Is No Alternative.\u201d In it, she insists that \u201cdemilitarizing\u201d Hamas is necessary, and that the framework is \u201cbacked by meaningful leverage\u201d and can bring an end to the crisis in Gaza. <\/p>\n

But Trump\u2019s plan offers no end to Israel\u2019s genocide, only an entrenchment of Israel\u2019s control over Gaza and continued ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. <\/p>\n

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