Who is part of Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ for Gaza?

Donald Trump unveils a complex three-tier governing structure for Gaza that places Trump and pro-Israel officials at the top, while Palestinians are relegated to municipal duties.

US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, left, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, centre, and Jared Kushner attend a meeting with Ukrainian officials on November 30, 2025, in Hallandale Beach, Florida, the United States [Terry Renna/AP Photo]

Jan. 18, 2026 - US President Donald Trump has officially outlined the architecture of the “Board of Peace”, which is expected to “fulfill” Trump’s 20-point plan for Gaza, days after US envoy Steve Witkoff launched “phase two” of the United States-brokered plan to end Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.

A statement published by the White House on Saturday details a three-tiered power structure – with a US-led “Board of Peace” comprised of billionaires and figures close to Israel at the top.

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Extreme cold kills another infant in Gaza as Israel blocks vital aid

Israel continues to block vital necessities, such as mobile homes, as the Palestinian enclave is hit by harsh weather conditions.

Israel continues to limit the number of tents and other shelter supplies entering Gaza [Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters]

Jan. 10, 2026 - A seven-day-old infant has died due to the extreme cold in the Gaza Strip as the Israeli blockade of vital necessities worsens the humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian enclave.

Medical sources told Al Jazeera on Saturday that Mahmoud Al-Aqraa died in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza amid rapidly decreasing temperatures.

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‘We just sit and cry’: Gaza’s cancer patients die waiting for treatment

Doctors say cancer-related deaths have tripled since Israel’s war on Gaza began, as Israel blocks patients from leaving and restricts the entry of chemotherapy drugs.

Jan. 9, 2026 - According to doctors, the number of cancer-related deaths has tripled since the October 2023 start of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. With no chemotherapy, no radiotherapy, and no way out, a cancer diagnosis has become, for many, an immediate death sentence.

The epicentre of this crisis is the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital. Once the sole facility providing specialised oncology care in the Gaza Strip, it now stands as a hollowed-out shell.

“It resembles a ghost hospital after being turned into a military site during the war,” Abu Azzoum reported. “Israeli forces blew it up, leaving patients to fend for themselves.”

With the main facility destroyed, doctors have been forced into makeshift clinics with zero resources.

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Israel planning renewed Gaza offensive in March, report says

Military seeks to seize more land in Gaza and push the Yellow Line further west towards the coast, Israeli media reports

Plumes of smoke rise after the Israeli army carried out house demolitions east of Jabalia, in the northern Palestinian Gaza Strip, on January 10, 2026. Bashar TALEB / AFP

Jan. 10, 2026 - The Israeli military has planned to launch a renewed offensive in Gaza in March to seize more land and push the Yellow Line further west towards the coast of the enclave, Times of Israel reported, quoting officials.

Even as the ceasefire moves closer to the second phase, the Israeli military has drawn up plans for the offensive, citing failure in getting Hamas to disarm, the report quoted an Arab diplomat as saying.

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Gaza children risk snipers to attend tent schools

Students in Beit Lahiya are attending makeshift classes in the dangerous ‘yellow zone’ near Israeli positions, as UNICEF warns that trauma has left 25 percent of children with speech impediments.

Palestinian children, mostly from displaced families, gather at an UNRWA school west of Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on December 6, 2025 [AFP]

Jan. 6, 2026 - The relentless Israeli war has destroyed the vast majority of Gaza’s educational infrastructure, forcing families to create makeshift “tent schools” in dangerous proximity to Israeli forces — an area demarcated by Israel as the “yellow zone” west of the separation line, often just a few metres away from danger.....MORE

Israeli Strikes Injure Displaced Palestinians as Gaza’s Winter Shelter Crisis Deepens

Israeli airstrikes and drone attacks continue across Gaza despite a ceasefire, while tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians face worsening winter conditions in unsafe and inadequate shelters.

How Israeli quadcopters are killing Palestinians in Gaza

Jan. 3, 2026 - Four Palestinians, including a woman and two children, were seriously injured after an Israeli drone dropped a bomb on a tent sheltering displaced families in Beit Lahia, in the Gaza Strip, as Israeli forces continued airstrikes and artillery attacks across multiple areas of the besieged enclave.

A medical source at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City said the drone strike targeted a tent in the Al-Atatra area, located outside the zones where Israeli forces are officially deployed. The bombing was followed by artillery shelling of the same area, exacerbating fears among displaced civilians already living in precarious conditions.

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Is Israel’s genocide economy on the brink?

Economist Shir Hever explains how the Gaza war mobilization propped up a ‘zombie economy’ that appears to function but lacks any future horizon.

People walk through Tel Aviv’s Carmel Market, partially closed following ongoing missile attacks from Iran, June 23, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Dec. 16, 2025 - Since October 2023, Israel has faced a convergence of economic shocks. Tens of thousands of residents have been displaced from border regions in the south and north as a result of hostilities with Hamas and Hezbollah, while hundreds of thousands of reservists were pulled out of the workforce for extended periods, leaving key sectors short-staffed and productivity depleted. Public services, education, and healthcare have deteriorated as state spending was diverted to the war, and almost 50,000 businesses have gone bankrupt. 

Capital flight — particularly in the high-tech sector — together with a growing reliance on foreign loans has added significant strain to the economy, with debt expected to reach 70 percent of GDP in 2025. Israel’s international standing has also weakened: Once-stable trade partners are turning away, sanctions and boycotts are expanding, and major investors are beginning to look elsewhere.

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The Gaza genocide radicalized the world — and there’s no going back

People can't unsee a live-streamed annihilation defended under the banner of liberal democracy. They know the Israeli apartheid regime can no longer exist.

An activist waves a Palestinian flag at the front a feminist march in Paris, March 7, 2025. (Anne Paq/Activestills)

Dec. 24, 2025 - October 7, 2023, marked a paradigmatic rupture in how Palestine is discussed and imagined. Until that moment, international discourse had been trapped in the vocabulary of statehood and peace processes. The Palestinian question was framed as a conflict to be managed rather than a structure of domination to be dismantled, but October 7 forced the world to confront the realities Palestinians have long named: settler colonialism, the ongoing Nakba, Zionism, and Israeli apartheid.....MORE

UN chief Guterres calls on Israel to reverse NGO ban in Gaza, West Bank

Guterres says pending ban targets groups ‘indispensable to life-saving’ work, undermines ceasefire progress.

A Palestinian man waits at the entrance of the medical clinic run by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Khan Younis, Gaza [File: Ramadan Abed/Reuters]

Jan. 3, 2026 - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on Israel to reverse a pending ban on 37 nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) working in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

In a statement on Friday, Guterres called the work of the groups “indispensable to life-saving humanitarian work”, according to spokesperson Stephane Dujarric. He added that the “suspension risks undermining the fragile progress made during the ceasefire”.

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Countries demand Israel lift Gaza aid restrictions as Palestinians suffer

A Palestinian woman, Nanaa Abu Jari, cooks outside her tent after it was flooded by heavy rainfall in central Gaza's Nuseirat on January 2, 2026 [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]

Jan. 2, 2026 - Several countries in the Middle East and Asia have called on Israel to allow “immediate, full, and unhindered” deliveries of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip as winter storms lash the bombarded Palestinian enclave.

In a statement on Friday, the foreign ministers of Qatar, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Turkiye, Pakistan and Indonesia warned that “deteriorating” conditions in Gaza had left nearly 1.9 million displaced Palestinians particularly vulnerable.

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