U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday (February 15, 2026) said member states of the so-called Board of Peace, which he heads, have pledged more than $5 billion for Gaza humanitarian relief and reconstruction efforts, and committed thousands of personnel to a proposed force that would assume security responsibilities in the war-ravaged Palestinian enclave.
“The Board of Peace has unlimited potential. Last October, I released a Plan for the permanent end to the Conflict in Gaza, and our Vision was unanimously adopted by the United Nations Security Council. Shortly thereafter, we facilitated Humanitarian Aid at record speed, and secured the release of every living and deceased Hostage,” Mr. Trump wrote in a social media post.
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A ceasefire came into effect in Gaza in October 2025 after Mr. Trump unveiled his 20-point peace plan, but Israel, which controls more than half of Gaza’s territory, continued to bomb the enclave. At least 12 Palestinians were killed on Sunday (February 15, 2026) morning in Gaza in an Israeli strike, according to Palestinian health officials. In the two years of war in Gaza, which was triggered by Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack on Israel in which some 1,200 people were killed, at least 75,000 Palestinians were killed, a vast majority of them women and children.
