Overview
- The Board of Peace will convene a two- to three-day meeting in Cyprus starting June 30 to recalibrate strategy after months of limited implementation.
- Organizers say attendees will include representatives of the Board, the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza and the office of High Representative Nikolay Mladenov, while Cyprus will attend only as an observer.
- Donors pledged roughly $17 billion at a Washington conference, but officials report only a small portion of that money has been transferred, leaving reconstruction plans largely on paper.
- Planners point to concrete steps taken so far, such as issuing more than a dozen requests for proposals for rubble removal, temporary housing and police facilities and beginning recruitment for a future Gaza police force.
- The outcome could determine whether projects that would affect displaced civilians can start soon and whether political hurdles like Hamas disarmament and governance legitimacy are resolved enough to let aid and contractors work inside Gaza.