‘The door to the future of Gaza is still closed’: Trump’s reconstruction promises stall

Key points

• Gaza is in a grim limbo more than seven months after Donald Trump brokered a ceasefire deal: no reconstruction is under way, the so-called Board of Peace is struggling with funding and Palestinian technocrats chosen to run the strip are sidelined in Egypt.
• In a 15 May submission to the UN security council, the Board of Peace said the “principal obstacle” to realising Trump’s plan for Gaza was Hamas’s refusal to hand over its weapons and cede control of the strip – but several people familiar with the body said funding shortfalls could jeopardise the effort.
• View image in fullscreen Palestinians inspect the destruction caused by an Israeli strike in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on 19 May.
• Photograph: Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Nine countries pledged $7bn (£5bn) to a “Gaza relief” package at the inaugural meeting of the Board of Peace, which Trump chaired.
• But only the United Arab Emirates...