The Union of Palestinian Communities and Organizations in Europe strongly condemns the positions expressed by the so-called “Board of Peace,” imposed by the U.S. administration under President Donald Trump to oversee the affairs of the Gaza Strip. The Union considers this body a framework for U.S.–Zionist trusteeship and an attempt to impose external arrangements that override the will of the Palestinian people and their national rights. The Union emphasizes that the Board lacks any Palestinian national legitimacy or popular mandate and has no authority to determine the future of the Gaza Strip or dictate its political and national choices.
The Board’s positions following the humanitarian catastrophe caused by heavy rainfall and flooding, which inundated thousands of tents sheltering displaced Palestinians, reveal an approach that exploits human suffering as a means of political blackmail. Rather than holding the Zionist occupation accountable for the destruction, the blockade, and the obstruction of essential shelter supplies and infrastructure rehabilitation, the Board has linked the worsening catastrophe to the positions of Palestinian parties in the Gaza Strip, turning urgent humanitarian needs into instruments of pressure aimed at imposing political and security arrangements that disregard Palestinian self-determination.
The Union also condemns the Board’s position following the Zionist airstrike on the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, which resulted in deaths and injuries, including among medical personnel. Instead of condemning the targeting of medical facilities and demanding accountability for those responsible for the crime, the Board echoed Zionist allegations concerning the presence of security suspects in hospitals. The Union considers the repetition of the Zionist entity’s narrative and the shifting of responsibility from its military to the Palestinian victims to be a flagrant endorsement of Zionist propaganda, contributing to the justification and concealment of these crimes.
The Union affirms that the Zionist entity, as an occupying power, bears legal and political responsibility for the war crimes and violations committed by its military in the Gaza Strip. It maintains that the so-called “Board of Peace” serves as political cover for the continuation of genocide and systematic destruction, while attempting to absolve the Zionist entity of its responsibilities and reduce the Palestinian cause to administrative, security, and economic arrangements that strip the Palestinian people of their rights to self-determination, independence, and return.
These efforts are accompanied by attacks on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and attempts to undermine its role and mandate, as part of a broader campaign targeting the Palestinian refugee issue and the right of return. The Union categorically rejects any attempt to make the reconstruction of Gaza and the provision of humanitarian necessities to its population conditional upon political demands that undermine the rights of the Palestinian people or turn the rebuilding of what the occupation has destroyed into a price to be paid for surrendering their right to self-determination. Reconstruction is both a humanitarian and a national right, not an instrument for imposing foreign trusteeship or reshaping Palestinian realities in accordance with U.S. and Zionist interests.
Gaza is an integral and inseparable part of the Palestinian homeland. Its future belongs exclusively to the Palestinian people to determine, and no project that infringes upon their rights to freedom, independence, self-determination, and return can claim any legitimacy.
Union of Palestinian Communities and Organizations in Europe
14th November 2026
