A leaked draft resolution obtained by The Guardian outlines sweeping legal protections for members of President Donald Trump’s UN-backed Board of Peace, granting immunity to board officials, staff, foreign contractors, and the international force assigned to Gaza, while also allowing the body to take control of public property in the territory without compensation.
The four-page document, marked “sensitive but unclassified” and identified as Resolution No. 2026/3, would prohibit “any arrest, detention or legal proceedings in the courts or other entities in Gaza” against board members, the office of the high representative, Palestinian technocrats serving in the transitional administration, foreign contractors, and members of the international stabilization force operating alongside them.
The proposal remained in draft form as of Saturday and had not yet been formally adopted.
Under the proposed framework, Trump, serving as chairman of the Board of Peace, would have authority to lift an individual’s immunity if a majority of the board’s seven-member executive panel approved the move.
That executive committee includes Jared Kushner, Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, and National Security Adviser Marco Rubio.
The Board of Peace was created under UN Security Council Resolution 2803, approved on Nov. 17, 2025. The resolution authorized the body to oversee Gaza’s transitional administration through Dec. 31, 2027, while also empowering it to negotiate legal protections for the international stabilization force. According to the report, however, the new draft would expand those protections far beyond what the original UN resolution envisioned.
A Board of Peace official rejected The Guardian’s characterization of the proposal, stating that there is “no operative resolution or immunity framework of the kind described” and denying that Trump would personally establish or waive immunity.
The official added that board personnel and contractors would be subject to oversight and accountability procedures but did not provide details about how those mechanisms would function.
The Guardian reported that six attorneys it consulted raised concerns about Section 7 of the draft, which establishes an internal process for handling claims involving property damage, personal injury, or death resulting from the board’s operations in Gaza.
Noura Erakat, a professor of international law at Rutgers University, told the newspaper that the proposal effectively creates a legal system accountable only to the board itself.
Emily Schaeffer Omer-Man, an attorney specializing in international humanitarian law, said the language appears intended to shield the board and its personnel from legal responsibility for possible violations committed during their operations.
According to the report, those concerns are amplified by the absence of any formal status-of-forces agreement governing Gaza. An American security contractor told The Guardian that Israel has refused to negotiate such an agreement because doing so could be interpreted as recognizing Gaza as a sovereign state.
The report also noted that the board has already invited bids for projects involving debris removal, security services, and large-scale reconstruction—initiatives Jared Kushner has promoted as laying the foundation for luxury resorts and high-tech development zones in Gaza.
Another provision in the draft would authorize the Board of Peace, the office of the high representative, and the international stabilization force to use public buildings and facilities throughout Gaza “free of charge,” although the proposal does not specify whether Israel, Hamas, or the Palestinian Authority would be responsible for transferring those properties.
According to The Guardian, the board’s Bulgarian high representative for Gaza, Nickolay Mladenov, has been holding meetings with Palestinian officials in Cairo this week, but the draft resolution has not been shared with them.
If approved, the resolution would become effective upon Mladenov’s signature.
{Matzav.com}