The United Arab Emirates is doubling down on its investment in President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace.
UAE leaders transferred $100 million to the international organization on Friday to help fund training for a new police force in Gaza.
It is the largest donation pledged to the Board of Peace since the founding member states each promised to contribute $1 billion to its operations.
The UAE hopes to help the Palestinian government build out a police force of approximately 27,000 personnel, according to reports.
Law enforcement authorities are slated to undergo training in Egypt and Jordan before being deployed to keep peace in war-torn Gaza.
The Board of Peace is also reportedly working to launch the International Stabilization Force outlined in Trump’s 2025 Gaza peace plan. That group, made up of troops supplied by international partners, would be responsible for transitioning the Israeli military out of the strip.
“We need to coordinate between the Board of Peace and Israel on a lot of the activities that need to take place in the areas that the IDF controls in Gaza in order to finalize the process of removing the remains of tunnels or weapons caches,” Board of Peace High Representative for Gaza Nickolay Mladenov said this week.
Nations that have secured a seat on the board include: the United States, Albania, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belarus, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Egypt, El Salvador, Hungary, Indonesia, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Mongolia, Morocco, Pakistan, Paraguay, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, the UAE, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam.
Each was required to pledge at least $1 billion toward a fund that would allow the board to take action implementing the Gaza peace plan. It is unclear which of these nations has already transferred the funds and which have yet to act on their financial pledge.
The ultimate goal of the peace plan is to unite Gaza and the West Bank under a technocratic, secular governing structure.
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The primary objectives to reach that goal include the total removal of Hamas militants from the region, the decommissioning of weapons, and de-radicalization of the Palestinian population.
Disarming Hamas has proven troublesome for international partners. The terrorist group has been largely decapitated and is unable to wage meaningful counter-warfare against Israel and its allies, but is believed to still boast significant caches of weaponry that could threaten the long-term peace of the future Palestine.
Hamas fears that Palestine will be susceptible to future incursions by the Israeli military if the territories do not have the capacity to defend themselves.