The Board of Peace (BoP), proposed by President Trump, was envisaged as the principal mechanism to oversee and supervise the implementation of the 20-point Gaza Peace Plan signed on October 9, 2025.

The plan was subsequently endorsed by the UN Security Council, raising expectations that a credible international frame-work had finally emerged to halt the cycle of violence in Gaza. However, develop-ments on the ground since then have cast serious doubts on both the efficacy and credibility of this initiative. Despite the so-called peace plan, Israel has continued its military aggression in Gaza, killing more than 500 Palestinians since October 2025 alone and wounding thousands. President Trump may have shown an interest in de-escalation, yet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears determined to pursue a policy of ethnic cleansing; first in Gaza and later in the West Bank. This re-ality raises a fundamental question: how can a Trump-led Board of Peace (BoP) guarantee peace in Gaza when Israel continues to violate the very framework it claims to support? The credibility of the BoP is further undermined by the fact that public pressure and warnings have been directed almost exclusively at Hamas and the Palestinians, while Israel’s repeated violations of ceasefire norms have not been met with comparable international censure. This selective........

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