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World leaders pose during a Board of Peace charter announcement during the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 22, 2026.<\/span>Evan Vucci\/AP<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Donald Trump said Sunday<\/span> that member states of his Board of Peace have pledged $5 billion toward reconstruction and humanitarian efforts in Gaza.\u00a0<\/p>\n Countries will also send thousands of personnel to \u201cmaintain Security and Peace for Gazans,\u201d the president wrote<\/a> on Truth Social. The pledge will be officially announced during the board\u2019s inaugural meeting on February 19 at the United States Institute of Peace (which the State Department announced had been renamed<\/a> the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace last December).\u00a0<\/p>\n While it remains unclear which of the more than 20 members<\/a> would make the pledge, the Associated Press reported that Indonesia said<\/a> up to 8,000 troops would be ready for deployment to Gaza by June.<\/p>\n Trump posted his message the same day Israeli forces reportedly killed<\/a> at least 12 Palestinians in airstrikes. Gaza\u2019s civil defense agency, an emergency service and rescue force,\u00a0said five people were killed and several others were injured when a strike targeted a tent sheltering displaced families.\u00a0<\/p>\n According to the Guardian<\/em><\/a>, the Al-Shifa and Nasser hospitals confirmed they received the bodies of at least seven people.\u00a0<\/p>\n An Israeli military official said that the airstrikes were conducted in response to Hamas violations of the ceasefire agreement, where several armed individuals allegedly crossed a border line<\/a> that went into effect last October. The \u201cyellow line\u201d splits Gaza in two: one under Israeli military control and one where Palestinians face fewer mobility limitations but are still threatened by displacement and airstrikes.\u00a0<\/p>\n Since the US-brokered ceasefire was declared, Israel has killed<\/a> at least 601 Palestinians and injured 1,607, according to the latest numbers from the Palestinian Ministry of Health.\u00a0As Daniel Levy, the president of the US\/Middle East Project<\/a>, a policy institute focusing on advancing a dignified Israeli-Palestinian peace, told<\/a> my colleague Noah Lanard just days after the October ceasefire agreement, there is \u201cno actual plan\u201d for peace. <\/p>\n Although Trump\u2019s Board of Peace<\/a> was initially seen<\/a> as an international organization that would end the war in Gaza, the organization\u2019s charter<\/a> does not mention Gaza, instead increasing <\/strong>its scope worldwide to \u201cpromote stability, restore dependable and lawful governance, and secure enduring peace in areas affected or threatened by conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n And as Mother Jones<\/em>\u2019 Washington bureau chief, David Corn, wrote<\/a> earlier this month, the Board of Peace has since devolved into a global slush fund where countries can upgrade a three-year term to indefinite membership by paying $1 billion.\u00a0<\/p>\n Many of the US\u2019 top allies in Europe have declined invitations, considering the Board of Peace a way to swerve<\/a> accountability to the United Nations. Many have also condemned<\/a> the organization as its charter designates Trump as the sole leader, as well as the US representative.<\/p>\n \u201cNobody should be above the law,\u201d Kaja Kallas, the EU foreign affairs chief, told<\/a> US ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz on Friday regarding Trump virtually controlling all decision-making in the international organization. \u201cIf countries are treated equally, there\u2019s less chance for war and tyranny.\u201d<\/p>\n