The White House referred questions to the Board of Peace.

The Board of Peace did not answer specific questions about the draft resolution, but an official said in a statement: “There is no operative resolution or immunity framework of the kind described in your questions … Any suggestion that this process is designed to create lawlessness or impunity is wrong, misleading and gets the issue entirely backwards.”

The official added that “the suggestion that the President will have a role in establishing or waiving immunity in Gaza [is] categorically false”, and that “the Board will ensure all personnel, contractors, and participating entities follow applicable law and operate under clear rules, oversight, and accountability mechanisms”. The official did not explain what the oversight and accountability would be.

Nickolay Mladenov, a Bulgarian diplomat serving as the Board of Peace’s high representative for Gaza, has been meeting in Cairo this week with Palestinian administrators selected by the Board of Peace to govern Gaza. The discussions have focused on refining the framework for the group’s work in the territory, according to one person familiar with the agenda. The prospective immunity resolution titled “RESOLUTION NO 2026/3” has not been shared with the Palestinian cohort, the person said.

‘No external oversight’

Six lawyers specializing in US contracting law and international armed conflict reviewed the draft resolution for the Guardian.

If the resolution goes into force, they said, it is unclear how Board of Peace officials, soldiers, and contractors would be held accountable if there are shootings or accidents that affect Gaza residents, or even how the group might resolve routine disputes over business or land use there.

US-led reconstruction efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan were often plagued by controversies of corruption or cases of civilian deaths or abuse at the hands of American contractors, including those working for Blackwater and KBR, who have since faced litigation in US courts. Any reconstruction effort in Gaza could face similar challenges.

“It looks like an attempt to exempt the board, and all of its personnel, from accountability for potential legal violations,” said Emily Schaeffer Omer-Man, an expert in litigating international humanitarian law in Israeli, American and foreign courts.

Several lawyers, including Omer-Man, pointed to the specific risks associated with section 7 of the draft resolution, entitled “Third Party Liability/Claims”, which lays out a system for the Board of Peace to consider and adjudicate any claims for “property loss or damage and for personal injury, illness or death” arising from its work in Gaza.

“They are basically saying there’s no external oversight, including applicable international law regarding occupation,” said Noura Erakat, an international law professor at Rutgers University. “It’s creating a legal system unto itself.”

Contractors have also pressed for clarity about the legal protections afforded for potential work in Gaza, where the Trump-backed peace board has solicited bids for rubble removal, security work and a vast reconstruction effort envisaged there. Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has described transforming the coastal territory into a site of luxury resorts, hi-tech cities and regional business hubs.

Laws governing international contractors and military forces are usually outlined in “status of forces agreements” between countries, but there is no such document for Gaza. American contractors can be subject to US law for certain crimes even if they operate overseas.

“I would think any company would want a very clear legal framework,” said Doug Brooks, president emeritus of the International Stability Operations Association. “There are liability issues any serious American company would want to be clear about.”

Israeli officials don’t want to negotiate a status of forces agreement in Gaza because Israel doesn’t want to recognize Gaza as a state, one American security contractor said.

“It’s pretty important for political and legal cover and insurance,” the contractor said. “It gives the people of Gaza clarity and comfort around how they’ll be treated and dealt with by contractors they may engage with.”
Free facilities for the Board of Peace

The final section of the Board of Peace’s draft resolution, entitled “Premises of the Board of Peace, OHR, and ISF”, says that the group “shall be provided, free of charge, public premises and facilities needed for the accomplishment of the missions in Gaza”.

Legal experts said that this singular phrase could open the door to illegal confiscation of Palestinian property. It’s not clear which group – Israel, Hamas or the Palestinian Authority – would be responsible for “providing” the Board of Peace with facilities, and under what terms.

The Board of Peace plans to build a base for an international military force, as well as logistics hubs to power its operations there, according to contractors involved in the process. The international force is intended to assist with disarming Hamas, which is a crucial step in Trump’s peace plan. Israel has refused to proceed with steps outlined by a November 2025 ceasefire agreement if Hamas continues to bear arms.

“By unilaterally declaring the power to seize Palestinian land, property and buildings for their own use without consent, compensation or readdress, the Board of Peace is taking a page out of Israel’s repressive playbook,” said Omar Shakir, executive director at Dawn, a non-profit dedicated to investigating the impacts of US foreign policy in the Middle East. “Far from signaling an end to genocide, apartheid and occupation, this document suggests entrenching some of its ugliest signature characteristics. This risks not only complicity, but direct perpetration of grave abuses.”

Several attorneys raised questions about the Board of Peace’s legal authority to assume control of public facilities and premises.

“If they don’t have a status of forces agreement with Israel, then it’s not clear what the board’s legal authority would be,” said Brad Parker, associate director of policy at the Center for Constitutional Rights. CCR attorneys have represented victims in US litigation against Blackwater and other American security contractors for alleged abuses in Iraq.

The UN security council authorized the Board of Peace to oversee the administration of Gaza until 31 December 2027. The UN charter affords its diplomats and organizations specific legal protections for work conducted on behalf of UN missions abroad. Language in the Board of Peace’s draft resolution appears to draw on those existing frameworks, which include protections against the arrest or detention of UN diplomats during official work, as well as the seizure of UN property. It’s unclear if the Board of Peace could draw on the UN immunities for its own protection.

The draft says that the resolution will go into force upon Mladenov’s signature. The Board of Peace did not respond to questions about what additional parties, if any, would sign its sweeping resolution.

“How valuable is this document if they are the only ones signing it?” Shakir said.

It's always about real estate with this fat fuck, he should've just stuck to screwing over tenants as a slumlord.

>>1521653
>The Board of Peace plans to build a base for an international military force, as well as logistics hubs to power its operations there, according to contractors involved in the process.
It sounds like Gaza will eventually become part US military base and part Israeli settlements. The US is wanting to move bases westward.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-considering-moving-gulf-bases-hit-by-iran-westward-including-to-israel-report/

>>1521661
The World needs Trump. Thank you, board of peace for helping us all out.

>>1521650
Listen at a time of uncertainty Trump is the dark knight we need. It’s important that we trust the plan and not let yucky red tape like “oversight” get in the way. Trump is the kind of wolf I’d trust with protecting my MAGA sheep and I proudly consider myself part of his flock
Amen!

The board of peace is as peace loving as a truck of peace. It's religious fundamental terrorism yet legalized.

>>1521650
>organization with no legal authority says it can't do crime
Sure, man, me too.

>>1521650
Good. Trump should pardon everyone in his cabinet for the past twenty years to keep Democrats from doing more retaliatory lawfare like they did under Biden

>>1521683
HOW DARE Biden's DOJ indict people who committed crimes!

>>1521652
>Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has described transforming the coastal territory into a site of luxury resorts, hi-tech cities and regional business hubs.
Least delusional trump family member

>>1521683
>Trump should pardon everyone in his cabinet
The problem is since Trumps cabinet actually committed crimes, a pardon stops them from taking the fifth when talking about them
So it doesn't really work that way

>>1521683
If they can't self-incriminate, then they can be compelled to testify.

>>1521650
good corrupt leftists already gave it to themselves like biden preemptively pardoning fauci
so suffer lefty suffer

>>1521702
nobody suffers as much as you, esl shill

>>1521699
>>1521701
That's not how the fifth amendment works. You cannot forfeit your constitutional rights no matter the situation.

>>1521704
That is literally how the 5th ammendment works and they've done it that way before, giving full amnesty and then compelling testimony. You cannot incriminate yourself for something you've already got immunity for.

>>1521708
words are hard for esl shill

>>1521708
>>1521709
You don't understand, ESL jeets. You are not "compelled" to do anything and you always have the right to invoke your fifth, even if you've already been given immunity. There's a reason that Trump's cabinet didn't bother going after anyone that Biden pardoned. It's going to be a waste of time and take multiple court cases going to the supreme court just to get to baseline

>>1521712
That'll be a huge shocker to everyone involved in the 2019 case where they wanted to prosecute a guy for war crimes, gave a different guy immunity and made him testify, and then he said he did it himself and everyone got to walk away scot free because his testimony couldn't incriminate himself after being granted immunity. You should see if you can contact the prosecutors or judge on that case. They might want to know they were all wrong.

>>1521713
Invoking the fifth isn't an admission of guilt and doesn't imply you're guilty in any way, or at least that's how the court is required to interpret it.

>>1521716
Accepting immunity means admitting guilt. There are people rotting in prison right now because they don't want to accept a pardon that requires them to admit guilt.
And there have been multiple cases of courts ruling that testimony which would have incriminated yourself is not protected under the fifth amendment if you are immune from the consequences of doing so. If the prosecutors say "we offer immunity for your testimony", then you can be compelled to testify even if doing so would have incriminated you. This has played out in court before and is considered legally sound. As far as I know, you can't be compelled to incriminate your spouse, and it's very very difficult for them to make you incriminate a news source if you're a journalist or a confession if you're the kind of religious authority who can receive those.

>>1521719
>Accepting immunity means admitting guilt.
This is corporate employer immunity or combatant privilege where you aren't held personally liable for your actions as an employee or soldier. In those cases the corporation or government could still be sued but the employee is immune.

If the package delivery service breaks your item you cant sue the delivery driver even if they dropped the package, instead you sue the company.

>>1521719
>Accepting immunity means admitting guilt
Did Hunter Biden and Anthony Fauci admit their guilt when accepting pardons from Joe Biden?

>>1521781
If they ever actually have to use their immunity as a defense from prosecution, yes. You cannot be pardoned for something you didn't do, so the way it works is that either the prosecutors never even bother trying (leaving your guilt in limbo) or they do try to prosecute, you say "I did it and have a pardon" and then they enter "guilty, no sentence" on the record. Everyone who has ever actually used a pardon to get out of their sentence is officially as guilty as anyone has ever been. They admitted they did it and have no appeals left to contest that fact. They just get to avoid being punished for it.

It's actually kind of surprising that this DoJ hasn't made the push to force them to use their pardons. It would be a huge waste of time and money, but they'd get to say "look, they pled guilty to all these crimes!" even though it doesn't mean anything.

>>1521719
>Accepting immunity means admitting guilt.
That's not true at all.
Accepting a pardron does, but that's because it's impossible to pardon an innocent person.

>>1521702
I wish Obama actually had done all the things conservatards lied about him doing to them. Maybe there is still time to build the gas chambers under the walmarts.

>>1521793
Thats not whats happening here though.
The Fifth amendment protects you from judicial self harm by allowing you to not give testimony that would lead to your conviction.
With the pardon you don't have that protection because you can't be convicted. Innocence/Guilt doesn't matter.

So what's to stop everyone from the board of warmongering from being removed after trump is forced from office (Assuming he stages a second coup.) and revoking their immunity?

>>1521901
A lack of political will, or political power from the damage Trump has done to our government.

>>1521906
At least on the American front, it's going to depend on the far right uniparty that runs both the republicans and democrats being broken by an actual populists movement, which you're starting to see in democratic primaries and why the uniparty is openly shitting themselves.

>>1521906
>Our
Damn, Iran is pissed huh?

>>1521901
Trump's position on the board of peace is legally separate from his position as president and he serves for life.

It isn't a US institution.

>>1521926
Can I still seethe endlessly at him though?
Because like 96% of my political beliefs have been formed by billionaire mouthpieces running scam after scam to get dRumpf.

>>1521901
What immunity? With what authority? Under what laws? They're just saying shit, anon. It doesn't actually mean anything.

>>1521931
>Because like 96% of my political beliefs have been formed by billionaire mouthpieces running scam after scam to make Trump and themselves richer.
Fixed.

>>1521933
Broken.