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President Donald Trump’s so-called “Board of Peace” met in Cyprus this week to revive the board after months of inaction. The board’s main decision out of the meetings has been to separate Palestinians into “humanitarian corridors” that enable Israel to continue its takeover of Gaza.

Over two days of talks on Tuesday and Wednesday, representatives of the poorly-named “Board of Peace” created a plan to open “Hamas-free” zones in Gaza where aid will be distributed.

According to reporting by Israel Hayom – an Israeli newspaper that supports Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – the board will establish areas in Gaza that it will “direct” Palestinian civilians to move into. Its plan entails increasingly separating Palestinian civilians from Hamas – a task that will likely be difficult if not impossible. Hamas’s 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.

The board has selected the Tel Sultan neighborhood in Rafah as the first area where it will “direct” Palestinians in Gaza to enter in the coming weeks. Israel Hayom states that multinational forces under the board’s control will arrive in the area with “nonlethal weapons” in order to “maintain order in the humanitarian zones” while the Israeli military will expand its control over other areas of Gaza.

These so-called “humanitarian zones” are enclaves facilitating the further concentration of Palestinians in Gaza into smaller and smaller areas as Israel deepens its control over the Strip.

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