Trumps Board of Peace announces $2.45B first-phase recovery plan for Gaza heres how the funds will be used
President Trump’s Board of Peace announced a multi-phase recovery plan for the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, with the first step set to cost $2.45 billion over six months.The plan, unveilved on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in midtown Manhattan, comprises 66 programs focused on infrastructure, economic growth and installing an international security force.The final cost of the completed reconstruction is estimated to cost $71 billion.“This recovery must be led by Palestinians, working in genuine partnership.
Central and local authorities, the private sector, civil society and affected communities will work together at every stage,” wrote National Committee for the Administration of Gaza chief commissioner Ali Shaath in a one-page summary of the plan.“What follows is not a wish list.Each program has been assessed, costed and sequenced.
We ask partners for political support, for the removal of obstacles, and for resources pooled behind a single plan.”That plan includes funding for humanitarian shelters that will replace tents, removal of debris, hospital rehabilitation, and the construction of desalination plants for water.“A year ago none of this existed; we didn’t have the conflict solved; the Board of Peace didn’t exist,” added US special envoy and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner.“Nobody knew what the International Stabilization Force was because it didn’t exist, and there was no national committee for Gaza because it didn’t exist.“And what you’ve seen is almost like the building of a really, really big startup … really doing this out of the goodness of their hearts and for their passion to see peace and real progress,” Kushner continued.
“They could have built a massive company with the sophistication and the effort that has gone into this, but I think we’re building something way more important than a company.“We’re building something that is really a platform to enable the Palestinian people in G...