$17 Billion In Pledges

President Donald Trump convened the inaugural session of his Board of Peace in Washington on Thursday, gathering representatives from 47 nations and the European Union to announce $17 billion in pledged contributions toward Gaza’s reconstruction, a headline figure that nonetheless arrived alongside frank admissions from officials inside the meeting that the hardest and most consequential questions about Gaza’s future remain unanswered.

The session was held at the newly renamed Donald J. Trump United States Institute of Peace, a building the president recently rechristened in his own name. He chaired the meeting himself, surrounded by foreign ministers, heads of state, and …