Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor: Eight months after the establishment of the Peace Council to oversee the recovery of the Gaza Strip, we review its achievements since its launch in January.

Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor:

▪Eight months after the establishment of the Peace Council to oversee the recovery of the Gaza Strip, we review its achievements since its launch in January.

▪Genocide: The UN commission of inquiry indicated that there are strong indications that Israel continues to commit genocide in Gaza, according to its investigation into crimes against Palestinian children in the occupied Palestinian territories between 7 October 2023 and 31 March 2026, and that the council has not stopped it.

▪Civilian protection: At the start of the council’s mandate on 22 January, the number of deaths in Gaza since the ceasefire stood at 477, then rose to 1,402 by 23 September, an increase of 925 under the umbrella of the council tasked with establishing peace.

▪Humanitarian aid: The council failed its most basic test, as families received half their food rations in February and March.

▪By September, the aid provided met only 50% of the minimum calorie requirement, while two-thirds of Gaza’s population suffer from acute hunger at crisis level or worse according to the IPC classification.

▪Healthcare: Under the council’s administration, only 19 hospitals out of 36 in Gaza are operating, all of them partially, and there is a severe shortage of medicines, equipment and fuel. Cancer and kidney patients lack the necessary treatment, tens of thousands need healthcare abroad, while medical evacuations remain limited.

▪Basic services: About 90% of Gaza’s water and sanitation infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed.

▪By August, 91% of the assessed households faced water insecurity, and about 70% of them received only 6 liters per person per day, while the minimum in emergencies is 15 liters.

▪Recovery: Gaza needs 71.4 billion dollars to restore basic services and infrastructure and revive an economy that has contracted by 84%.

▪The council waited 8 months to unveil a 2.45 billion dollar plan, including 66 projects whose implementation lacks funding and access, and to date reconstruction work has not yet begun.

▪Conflict of interest: Council member "Kushner" oversees Gaza, while his company holds a stake worth more than one billion dollars in Phoenix and investments exceeding 456 million dollars in 9 companies supplying the Israeli army.

▪In July, Affinity sold shares worth more than 340 million dollars, realizing 5 times the value of its investment.

▪One undisputed achievement: Israel became a founding member of the Peace Council on 12 February, thereby giving the occupying power a seat at the table.

▪Palestinians living under occupation did not get a seat, nor protection, nor a voice, and this is the council’s true record.