The so-called Board of Peace launched by President Donald Trump in Davos last week is developing plans for a U.S.-backed administration to govern Gaza, according to an unsigned draft resolution obtained by Drop Site from three sources in regular contact with U.S. and Israeli officials. Dated January 22, 2026 and titled “Resolution No. 2026/1,” the document aligns with ongoing U.S. and Israeli discussions about postwar governance and outlines a sweeping authority that would assume full legislative, executive, and judicial control over Gaza, including emergency powers, with the stated aim of creating a “deradicalized and demilitarized terror-free zone.”
However, war criminal Netanyahu has a place at the table.
Although the document leaves blank a signature line for Trump as chairman and it is unclear whether it has been formally adopted, metadata shows it was created by the State Department in mid-December and timed to Trump’s Davos appearance, while the department declined to comment. The resolution establishes a hierarchical structure with Trump as chair and an executive board empowered to enact, modify, or repeal civil and criminal law in Gaza.
It names nine executive board members, including Marco Rubio, Steve Witkoff, Tony Blair, Jared Kushner, Mark Rowan, Ajay Banga, Robert Gabriel, Susan Wiles, and Martin Edelman, and also creates a Gaza Executive Board serving in an advisory role.
Not coincidentally, almost half of its members are real estate developers and outspoken supporters of Israel.
The plan further proposes a National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, a technocratic Palestinian body operating under a High Representative, former UN envoy Nickolay Mladenov, and led by former Palestinian Authority official Ali Shaath, while excluding Palestinians from the Board of Peace itself and granting a seat to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Critics argue the structure bypasses UN oversight and concentrates power exclusively under Trump, a concern echoed by former UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths, who said Palestinians are reduced to technical implementers with no real accountability or representation. Participation in governance, reconstruction, aid, or economic activity would be limited to individuals and organisations deemed supportive of the Board’s ‘vision’ of a New Gaza and free of alleged ties to Hamas, based on eligibility standards set by the Executive Board and approved by Trump.
The draft also establishes supposed humanitarian zones and controlled corridors policed by a U.S.-led International Stabilisation Force, conditions access to aid and political participation on compliance with the plan, and states that all provisions would take effect immediately upon signature.
Trump and fellow-members of his ‘Board of Peace’
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