Multiple reports say Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” is planning a pilot humanitarian zone in southern Gaza to address urgent needs for residents while also aiming to advance the US president’s broader peace effort. A board official tells Reuters, as cited by Al-Monitor, that the plan is not dependent on reaching a deal with Hamas over the peace plan’s second phase. The official says the board has identified “secure areas” that could accommodate tens of thousands of Gazans and where goods and services could be scaled up to meet humanitarian needs for those who choose to relocate to the zone.
NDTV and Times of India report similarly that the pilot would function as a “humanitarian zone,” with at least one account describing it as a potential “starting point” for a Palestinian technocratic committee. That committee is described as intended to take on day-to-day governance during a proposed transitional phase that would follow an end to fighting and the movement toward post-war administration.
The location details are limited across the reports, and no timeframe or formal arrangement with Hamas is described in the cited accounts.
