US President Donald Trump has introduced the so-called "Peace Board", a new body for resolving international conflicts, with a $1 billion fee for permanent membership.
While Davos is talking about peace, plans and investments, the situation in Gaza continues to deteriorate. Medical sources from Al-Shifa Hospital report that at least four people have been killed by Israeli fire, while a baby has died from the cold, in conditions of an increasingly serious humanitarian crisis.
Palestinian reactions to the Peace Board are deeply skeptical. Manal al-Qouqa, a displaced mother in Gaza, said that “this so-called peace council does not exist in reality,” adding that any new international initiative only adds to the suffering of the Palestinian people.
"What kind of peace are they talking about, when on the ground there is neither peace nor security? We are living a real tragedy, a modern Nakba," she said.
Suhail al-Hanawi, another displaced Palestinian, also stated that Trump and Netanyahu are among the actors behind global conflicts, emphasizing that for people in the displacement camps, the Peace Board has not brought any real change or relief from suffering.
At the same time, criticism has also increased over the way Gaza was presented at Davos. According to observers, what emerged was a sanitized, cosmetic image, disconnected from reality, where Gaza was treated more as a future investment project than as a country in urgent need of humanitarian aid.
"The bright posters present Gaza as a business opportunity, not as a place where people are being killed, starving and displaced every day," the reactions say, warning that the danger lies in normalizing the tragedy and obliterating the human dimension of the crisis.
According to critics, Gaza is being discussed as a planning and investment site, not as a territory where people are dying every day, while mass displacement, hunger, extreme poverty and suffering are being left in the background.
Essentially, the criticism is clear: Gaza does not need marketing and future development plans, but a halt to violence, protection of civilians, and urgent survival aid.
