Overview
- U.S. officials are considering asking Israel to transfer part of the Palestinian Authority’s withheld tax revenue to President Trump’s Board of Peace to help finance Gaza reconstruction.
- The administration has not decided whether to make a formal request, according to officials familiar with the internal talks.
- Palestinian sources say the draft plan would fund a transitional Gaza administration backed by the U.S., with separate transfers to the PA only if it carries out specified reforms.
- Palestinian officials say Israel is holding about $5 billion in PA tax revenue collected on imports, a freeze that has forced salary cuts for West Bank civil servants and strained basic services.
- A Board of Peace official urged all parties to mobilize resources for the roughly $70 billion rebuild, while Hamas’s refusal to disarm and continued Israeli strikes have stalled implementation.