The Peace Council approves an official document that stumbles on the road map for peace in Gaza
A document of the World Peace Council on Gaza revealed that the road map for the Gaza Strip faces major structural obstacles to the implementation of its adopted provisions, following the widening gap between political commitments and the reality on the ground.
The official document, which was submitted by the Peace Council to the UN Security Council, acknowledged that diplomatic efforts have stalled as a result of sharp and ongoing disagreements related to the future of Hamas's weapons, the nature of who will manage the Gaza Strip in the future, as well as the lack of sufficient international guarantees to secure the necessary financial and humanitarian support for the implementation of the plan, in addition to the continuous violation by the Israeli occupation forces of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza.
Mladenov's Terms and Pressures of Contingent Funding
The plan put forward by Bulgarian diplomat Nikolai Mladenov, the council's high representative launched by US President Donald Trump in Davos last January, directly links the reconstruction of Gaza to the disarmament of Hamas, which caused sharp criticism of him and accusations by Palestinian forces of siding with the Israeli vision and exerting political pressure under the guise of relief.
According to the document, US promises to provide contributions of up to $10 billion over a decade collide with Hamas's categorical refusal to give up its weapons, and the Israeli side's insistence on using the reconstruction and aid file as a political and security pressure card, at a time when the gap between financial pledges and what is actually spent to rescue 1.6 million people facing acute food insecurity is widening, according to data from the World Food Programme (IPC) for April and May 2026.
Field Expansion and Ceasefire Violations
These political crises coincide with the continuation of serious daily violations of the US-brokered ceasefire agreement that came into effect on October 10, 2025, as the Ministry of Health in Gaza documented the death of 877 Palestinians and the injury of 2,602 others as a result of subsequent Israeli violations of the agreement.
According to the council's document, this deterioration is reinforced by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's acknowledgment of expanding his army's control inside Gaza to include 60% of the Gaza Strip, exceeding the percentage specified in the agreement (53%), by moving the so-called "yellow line" westward towards the "orange line."
The document pointed out that this led to a reduction in the areas available to Palestinians and obliged humanitarian agencies to coordinate in advance with the occupation army to avoid targeting, after a devastating war since October 2023 that left more than 72,000 martyrs and destroyed 90% of the infrastructure.