Board of Peace Narrows Gaza Reconstruction to Single Rafah Pilot Camp — From $50B Master Plan to Portable Cabins for 50,000

Between July 8 and July 20, 2026, multiple independent outlets — Financial Times, The Guardian, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and The National News — reported that the Board of Peace’s Gaza reconstruction ambitions had narrowed dramatically from the whole-of-territory vision unveiled by Jared Kushner at Davos in January 2026 (180 skyscrapers, 100,000 housing units, a $50 billion real-estate opportunity) to a single “pilot” humanitarian and governance zone near Rafah. Per The National News, the approved pilot project would house up to 50,000 displaced Palestinians in portable cabins. The Financial Times described the zone as echoing “an idea long pushed by Israeli and US officials to funnel vetted Palestinian civilians into controlled” spaces, and reported the camp was unlikely to launch before December 2026 — a further six-month-plus implementation delay from the pilot announcement itself. The Foundation for Defense of Democracies, citing IDF sources, described the goal as moving “unarmed civilians who have been vetted for Hamas affiliations to the Israeli-controlled side of the Gaza Strip.” The general security and demilitarization role of the International Stabilization Force (under Commander Maj. Gen. Jasper Jeffers) is documented Board of Peace architecture, though no source specifically confirmed a named police force assigned to day-to-day operation of the Rafah pilot camp. The scope collapse — from a 100,000-unit, $50B, six-to-eight-city master plan to portable cabins for 50,000 people in a single zone, within roughly six months of the Davos unveiling — is among the more solidly tier-1-corroborated Board of Peace developments to date. See board-of-peace-charter-and-governance-architecture and kushner-jared for the Davos master-plan predicate.