Gaza "Board of Peace" ohne Geld

Fast ein halbes Jahr, nachdem Trump das Gaza "Board of Peace" mit viel Tam Tam ins Leben gerufen hat und als Alternative zur UN anpries, kann die Einrichtung, zu der unter anderem auch der inzwischen abgewählte Premier Ungarns gehörte, wenig vorweisen. Entsprechend still ist es um das Ding geworden, während auch in Gaza wenig vorangeht, außer dass dort die Hamas ihre Kontrolle ausdehnt, auch wenn Israel weiter gezielt ihre Anführer eliminiert.

Dass die Hamas wieder erstarkt sei, musste jüngst in einem eher seltenen öffentlichen Auftritt der Repräsentant dieses Boards sogar zugestehen:

The Board of Peace’s Gaza envoy said Wednesday that Hamas is consolidating its power in the Strip, while dragging its feet in agreeing to a US-backed framework for handing over its weapons that has led to the stalling of plans to rebuild the war-damaged enclave.

“Hamas is consolidating its grip on the population. It is taxing people in the street who have nothing left to give,” Nickolay Mladenov said during a briefing with foreign reporters in Jerusalem.

Mladenov held the rare media engagement as the Board of Peace struggles to determine how best to proceed after Hamas again bucked its disarmament proposal at the start of May.

Das Board steht allerdings noch vor ganz anderen Problemen. Denn ihm fehlen bislang schlicht die im Januar vollmündig angekündigten Gelder, wie aus diesem Bericht. des Daily Beast hervorgeht:

Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace,” which vowed to help rebuild Gaza, has no real funding despite receiving billions of dollars in pledges, according to a new report.

The president formally announced the board in January. Countries could join by contributing $1 billion, and members included Azerbaijan, Israel, Qatar, and Bahrain.

Nine countries later pledged more than $9 billion toward a Gaza “relief package” for the war-torn territory following years of fighting between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.

However, the Board of Peace’s World Bank-backed fund has still not received any substantial donor funding, four people familiar with the matter told The Financial Times. “Zero dollars have been deposited,” one source said. (...)

Elsewhere, the State Department pledged to redirect around $1.2 billion in aid toward projects linked to Trump’s Board of Peace. However, the money—which the board would not manage directly—has reportedly not yet been spent.

“None of that money [has gone to the board]. None of that money is being managed by the Board of Peace. And State tells us there’s no intent to have any of that money managed by the Board of Peace,” a senior congressional aide told the FT.

Sources also said that “not one U.S. dollar” has gone toward rebuilding Gaza, four months after Trump’s board was established.