Trump Reveals Horrifying Military Plan for Gaza’s Future
President Trump wants to build a 5,000-person military base in Gaza.
Board of Peace contracting records viewed by The Guardian show that the Trump administration plans to use more than 350 acres of desolate land in southern Gaza full of twisted metal from multiple Israeli bombing campaigns to construct a massive base with 26 armored watchtowers, bunkers, an arms range, and a storage warehouse—all encircled in barbed wire.
The base will serve as the headquarters for the upcoming International Stabilization Force (ISF), which the Trump and Jared Kushner-led Board of Peace say will have de facto control of Gaza. It is unclear what the rules of engagement for this force will be, and whether they will collaborate with the United Nations in any way.
“The Board of Peace is a kind of legal fiction, nominally with its own international legal personality separate from both the UN and the United States, but in reality it’s just an empty shell for the United States to use as it sees fit,” Rutgers law professor Adil Haque told The Guardian.
More importantly, this move shows once again that even amidst the destruction and violence of Israel’s genocide, Palestinian sovereignty is still of no concern to the Trump administration, or any parties involved in this so-called Board of Peace.
“Whose permission did they get to build that military base?” said Palestinian-Canadian lawyer Diana Buttu.