Civil Society Demands World Bank Withdraw From the So-Called Board of Peace - World BEYOND War

Civil Society Demands World Bank Withdraw from the So-Called Board of Peace - World BEYOND War

By the undersigned organizations, April 17, 2026Amidst the ongoing genocide in the occupied Palestinian Territory, over 190 civil society groups and human rights advocates have signed this joint statement to express our unequivocal denunciation of the World Bank’s role as the limited Trustee for the “Board of Peace”-associated Financial Intermediary Fund (FIF) for Gaza Reconstruction and Development (GRAD) and as a member of executive board of t…

Muhammad Shehada's piercing takedown of the "Board of Peace"

On April 13, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace presented an online round-table on “The Board of Peace, Gaza, and the Future of Multilateralism.” Gaza-born analyst Muhammad Shehada‘s contribution was a razor-sharp, ten-minute critique of the harsh and damaging effects that Trump’s “Board of Peace” has had on the two-million-plus Gaza Palestinians who have (thus far) survived Israel’s still-ongoing genocide in Gaza. You can see the wh…