The board was conceived to oversee the ceasefire in Gaza, but US officials have suggested it could rival the UN while the White House has promoted it as the answer to decades of conflict in the Middle East<\/a>. <\/p>\n Joined by leaders of increasingly prominent US allies including Kazakhstan, Indonesia and Azerbaijan, the Trump administration played a promotional video produced by football\u2019s governing body Fifa that proclaimed a \u201cnew dawn for Gaza\u201d. <\/p>\n The video featured AI-generated images of green parks, futuristic high rises and residences with glass balconies. The leaders of Canada, the UK, Australia and France did not attend.<\/p>\n Trump has cast the board as a collective guarantor of Gaza\u2019s redevelopment after he brokered an October ceasefire to end two years of fighting between Israel and Hamas.<\/p>\n But the concept has drawn fire for its broad exclusion of Palestinians and its failure to address critical issues such as Israel\u2019s continued occupation, bombardment and blockade of Gaza and a clear plan to disarm the militant group Hamas.<\/p>\n On stage at the building formerly known as the US Institute of Peace \u2014 renamed the Donald J Trump Institute of Peace \u2014 the president congratulated participants ranging from the president of Paraguay to his son-in-law Jared Kushner and Tony Blair, the former UK prime minister, for their \u201cbreakthrough\u201d.<\/p>\n Along with the financial pledges, Egypt and Jordan would train a future Palestinian police force to secure Gaza, Trump said. Indonesia, Morocco, Kazakhstan, Kosovo and Albania had committed to sending potentially thousands of troops to help secure the enclave if necessary.<\/p>\n \u201cFifa will be helping to raise a total of $75mn for projects in Gaza, and I think they\u2019re soccer-related,\u201d Trump added.<\/p>\n The promotional video, the latest in a series of such productions on Gaza displayed by Trump and his senior officials, showed images that Palestinians say are profoundly at odds with reality on the ground in the strip.<\/p>\n Within the enclave, more than 500 people have been killed in the four months since the ceasefire, while children sheltering in makeshift tents have continued to die from cold and complications from malnutrition.<\/p>\n \u201cIt feels surreal to watch somebody talk about you, but you\u2019re not in the conversation, and they\u2019re making plans,\u201d said Hani Almadhoun, the Palestinian-American founder of the Gaza Soup Kitchen, who was not in attendance.<\/p>\n Ali Shaath, who chairs the US-created National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, represented the sole voice of Palestinians in the room. <\/p>\n \u201cWe are operating in extremely difficult conditions,\u201d he said. \u201cHumanitarian needs are acute.\u201d<\/p>\n The meeting was also emblematic of the new world order that Trump has sought to cultivate, in which peace, trade and the exchange of money are intertwined.<\/p>\n In a rambling 47-minute address on Thursday, Trump emphasised the benefits of being in his favour, the power of his office \u2014 and the risks of ignoring his threats.<\/p>\n
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