Why is Trump’s Gaza Board of Peace facing a funding shortfall?

Al Jazeera · 🇶🇦 public Qatar · May 20, 2026 · 1277 words · By Mohammad Mansour

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Al Jazeera reports: Why is Trump’s Gaza Board of Peace facing a funding shortfall?.

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What happened

Al Jazeera reports: Why is Trump’s Gaza Board of Peace facing a funding shortfall?.

Why it matters

Experts say the lack of a political horizon and Israeli land grabs are deterring donors from funding Gaza’s reconstruction.

Common ground

The Board of Peace, which was founded by United States President Donald Trump in January to oversee the administration and reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, is facing a crippling cash crunch that threatens to derail its ambitious $70bn reconstruction plan for…

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Name Calling / Labeling, Appeal to Anger: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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fact_checkClaims Checked

eFinder analyzed this article and checked 18 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Nickolay Mladenov... was named as the director general of the Board of Peace in January.”

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This claim was extracted as a checkable statement from the article. eFinder labels it pending based on the available evidence and source context shown below.

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Claim 2: “After the 1993 Oslo Accord, the international community fulfilled only 70 percent of its commitments.”

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The provided search results discuss the Oslo Accords generally but do not provide the specific percentage (70%) of financial commitments fulfilled by the international community.

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web search NEUTRAL — The Abraham Accords are a set of agreements that established diplomatic normalization between Israel and several Arab states, beginning with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Accords

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web search NEUTRAL — schedule of specific commitments and list of Article II (MFN) exemptions on...
https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/serv_e/serv_commitments…

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web search NEUTRAL — The Oslo Accords opened a path to peace between Israel and Iran, but Iran chose proxy war instead. The Accords created a framework for Palestinian self-rule through negotiation with the Palestinian Au…
https://enkispeaks.com/iran-timeline-part-19-1993-2007-ran-b…

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Claim 3: “basic emergency relief – such as providing clean water, medicine and pest control – has seen only a 30 percent fulfilment rate.”

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Claim 4: “The three-phased US plan for Gaza explicitly demands the full disarmament of Hamas and all allied Palestinian factions as a prerequisite for reconstruction funds”

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Claim 5: “the European Union... fulfilled more than 95 percent of its pledges”

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The provided search results for the EU and Oslo Accords do not mention the specific figure of 95% of pledges being fulfilled.

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web search NEUTRAL — The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of 27 member states that are located primarily in Europe.[9][10] A supranational union with a total area of 4,233,255 km2 (1,634,469 sq mi) an…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union

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web search NEUTRAL — The European Commission has today designated, for the first time, six gatekeepers, under the Digital Markets Act (DMA).
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_23_…

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web search NEUTRAL — Recall that the Oslo Accords in 1993-95 divided Judea and Samaria into three zones: Areas A, B and C. The Palestinians have full and partial control of Areas A and B respectively, where about 90% of t…
https://www.factsandlogic.org/european-union-helps-palestini…

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Claim 6: “85 percent of Gaza’s buildings and infrastructure destroyed”

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Claim 7: “Israel’s genocidal war on the enclave, which has killed more than 72,000 Palestinians.”

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The claim regarding the death toll of more than 72,000 Palestinians is cited by a single cross-reference source (Al Jazeera).

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cross reference SUPPORTS — The Gaza Strip, under an Israeli blockade since 2007, has faced an unprecedented humanitarian and health crisis since Israel’s genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza, which began in October 2023 a…
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/12/history-of-flotilla…

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Claim 8: “the US military’s floating pier built off Gaza’s coast during the war... cost an estimated $220m to $320m and was dismantled after just four months.”

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Claim 9: “The Board of Peace, which was founded by United States President Donald Trump in January to oversee the administration and reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, is facing a crippling cash crunch”

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Multiple web search results confirm that President Trump founded the Board of Peace to oversee Gaza reconstruction and that it is currently facing a funding gap/cash crunch.

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web search NEUTRAL — Trump’s so-called “Board of Peace” has warned of a significant gap between the funds disbursed and the $17bn pledged to the organisation, according to media reports on Tuesday.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/19/trumps-board-of-pea…

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web search NEUTRAL — The board was originally thought to be aimed at helping end the two-year war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza and oversee reconstruction. But its proposed charter does not mention the Palestinian terr…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8jek4vv8ko

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web search NEUTRAL — President Donald Trump’s suggestion Tuesday that his Board of Peace “might” replace the United Nations is likely to compound concerns that the body meant to oversee the reconstruction of Gaza — and th…
https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/20/politics/trump-gaza-board-of-…

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Claim 10: “the board operates as a complex three-tiered governing structure heavily stacked with American billionaires and pro-Israel figures, such as billionaire Marc Rowan, US envoy Steve Witkoff, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner.”

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Web results from Al Jazeera and other sources confirm the presence of Steve Witkoff, Marco Rubio, and Jared Kushner on the board/initiative.

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web search NEUTRAL — Steven Charles Witkoff is an American real estate developer, investor, former attorney, and founder of the Witkoff Group. Since 2025, Witkoff has served as the United States special envoy to the Middl…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Witkoff

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web search NEUTRAL — Steve Witkoff, Marco Rubio and Jared Kushner in front of Ukrainian flags.US Secretary of State Marco Rubio: Rubio is one of the most pro-Israel officials in the Trump administration. He has said that …
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/18/who-is-part-of-trum…

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web search NEUTRAL — Graphic on the Board of Peace titled ‘Who is on the Gaza executive board?’ showing a grid of members with names and roles. The top row lists Steve Witkoff, US Special Envoy; Jared Kushner, White House…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8jek4vv8ko

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Claim 11: “the Abraham Accords, which saw the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan recognise Israel.”

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Wikipedia explicitly confirms that the Abraham Accords established diplomatic normalization between Israel and the UAE and Bahrain (and subsequently Morocco and Sudan).

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Claim 12: “its ambitious $70bn reconstruction plan for the devastated enclave”

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Multiple sources explicitly mention the $70 billion reconstruction plan and the shortfall relative to the $17 billion pledged.

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web search NEUTRAL — Trump’s Board of Peace warns of a looming cash shortfall in its $70 billion Gaza reconstruction plan.Member states have pledged $17 billion, but the total estimated cost for Gaza's reconstruction is m…
https://www.globalbankingandfinance.com/trumps-gaza-board-re…

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web search NEUTRAL — The proposal comes as Trump's Gaza plan faces a funding gap. According to April news reports, the Board of Peace had received only a small fraction of the $17 billion pledged for Gaza, slowing the pre…
https://www.latintimes.com/israel-holding-5-billion-palestin…

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web search NEUTRAL — Board of Peace seeks support for $70 billion plan.Gaza governance plan takes shape. Israel has agreed to participate in the Board of Peace initiative, while the PA was not invited to join.
https://anewz.tv/world/world-news/20133/trump-may-ask-israel…

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Claim 13: “The US-led board recently reported a critical gap between its financial commitments and actual disbursements, warning of an urgent liquidity crisis, according to the Reuters news agency.”

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While web results confirm the Board of Peace is warning of a funding gap, the provided evidence for the specific Reuters attribution consists only of general information about Reuters, not the specific report itself. The claim is corroborated in substance by other sources, but the specific attribution to Reuters is not explicitly verified in the provided snippets.

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web search NEUTRAL — Reuters (/ ˈrɔɪtərz / ⓘ ROY-tərz) is a British news agency wholly owned by Thomson Reuters, a multinational information conglomerate. [4][5] It employs around 2,500 journalists and 600 photojournalist…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuters

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web search NEUTRAL — 15 hours ago · Reuters provides business, financial, national and international news to professionals via desktop terminals, the world's media organizations, industry events and directly to consumers.
https://www.reuters.com/

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web search NEUTRAL — Read full articles, watch videos, browse thousands of titles and more on the "Reuters" topic with Google News.
https://news.google.com/topics/CAAqIQgKIhtDQkFTRGdvSUwyMHZNS…

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Claim 14: “Out of the $17bn pledged, the actual liquidity that has reached the ground is zero”

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There is a contradiction in the evidence regarding the amount that reached the ground. One source says 'just a tiny part' of the $17 billion has been received, while the claim states 'zero'. Another source mentions $7 billion in pledges from nine countries. The evidence confirms a gap, but contradicts the absolute 'zero' figure.

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web search NEUTRAL — Trump’s so-called “Board of Peace” has warned of a significant gap between the funds disbursed and the $17bn pledged to the organisation, according to media reports on Tuesday. Recommended Stories. li…
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/5/19/trumps-board-of-pea…

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web search NEUTRAL — Enthusiasm to actually fund the Gaza redevelopment proposal is waning. The Board of Peace, a pet project cooked up by Donald Trump late last year, has received just a tiny part of the total $17 billio…
https://newrepublic.com/post/208960/donald-trump-board-peace…

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web search NEUTRAL — President Trump convened the first meeting of his new Board of Peace on Thursday, announcing $7 billion in pledges from nine member countries to rebuild Gaza while offering few details about how Hamas…
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/us/politics/trump-board-o…

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Claim 15: “the Israeli military has expanded its control to 59 percent of the Gaza Strip.”

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Claim 16: “after the 2014 war on Gaza, only 46 percent of the $2.7bn pledged at a Cairo conference was disbursed after three years.”

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While search results mention a Cairo conference and pledges for Gaza reconstruction, they do not confirm the specific 46% disbursement figure after three years.

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web search NEUTRAL — In the year since the beginning of the conflict between Israel and Hamas, the question of proportionality in response to October 7th has taken center stage. ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQzKw30LeTA

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web search NEUTRAL — The largest pledge at the Reconstructing Gaza conference came from Qatar. Foreign Minister Khaled bin Mohammed al-Attiyah promised to contribute $1 billion. Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi del…
https://business.mega.mu/2014/10/13/54-billion-pledged-help-…

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web search NEUTRAL — Gaza's boundaries were drawn up as a result of the 1948 Middle East war, when it was occupied by Egypt. Egypt was driven out of Gaza in the 1967 war and the Strip was occupied by Israel, which built s…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgr71z0jp4o

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Claim 17: “828 Palestinians have been killed since the “truce” went into effect.”

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Claim 18: “Countries can bypass the standard three-year term and secure a “permanent seat” on the board for a $1bn contribution.”

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