Aram Roston and Cate Brown –The Guardian Feb 19, 2026
The Trump administration is planning to build a 5,000-person military base in Gaza, sprawling more than 350 acres, according to Board of Peace contracting records reviewed by the Guardian.
The site is envisioned as a military operating base for a future International Stabilization Force (ISF), planned as a multinational military force composed of pledged troops. The ISF is part of the newly created Board of Peace which is meant to govern Gaza. The Board of Peace is chaired by Donald Trump and led in part by his son-in-law Jared Kushner.
The plans reviewed by the Guardian call for the phased construction of a military outpost that will eventually have a footprint of 1,400 metres by 1,100 metres, ringed by 26 trailer-mounted armored watch towers, a small arms range, bunkers, and a warehouse for military equipment for operations. The entire base will be encircled with barbed wire.
The fortification is planned for an arid stretch of flatlands in southern Gaza strewn with saltbush and white broom shrubs, and littered with twisted metal from years of Israeli bombardment. The Guardian has reviewed video of the area. A source close to the planning tells the Guardian that a small group of bidders – international construction companies with experience in war zones – have already been shown the area in a site visit.
The Indonesian government has reportedly offered to send up to 8,000 troops. Indonesia’s president was one of four south-east Asian leaders scheduled to attend an inaugural meeting of the Board of Peace in Washington DC on Thursday.
The UN security council authorized the Board of Peace to establish a temporary International Stabilization Force in Gaza. The ISF, according to the UN, will be tasked with securing Gaza’s border and maintaining peace within the area. It is also supposed to protect civilians, and train and support “vetted Palestinian police forces”.
It is unclear what the ISF’s rules of engagement would be if there is combat, renewed bombing by Israel, or attacks by Hamas. Nor is it clear what role the ISF is meant to play in disarming Hamas, an Israeli condition to proceed with Gaza’s reconstruction.
While more than 20 countries have signed up as members of the Board of Peace, much of the world has stayed away. Although it was set up with the UN’s approval, the organization’s charter appears to grant Trump permanent leadership and control.
“The Board of Peace is a kind of legal fiction, nominally with its own international legal personality separate from both the UN and the United States, but in reality it’s just an empty shell for the United States to use as it sees fit,” said Adil Haque, a professor of law at Rutgers University.
Experts say the funding and governance structures are murky, and several contractors have told the Guardian that conversations with US officials are often conducted on Signal rather than over government email.
The military base contracting document was issued by the Board of Peace, according to a person familiar with the process, and prepared with the help of US contracting officials.
The plans say there is to be a network of bunkers each 6 metres by 4 metres and 2.5 metres tall, with elaborate ventilation systems where soldiers can go for protection.
“The Contractor,” says the document, “shall conduct a geophysical survey of the site to identify any subterranean voids, tunnels, or large cavities per phase.” This provision is likely referencing the large network of tunnels Hamas has built in Gaza.
One section of the document describes a “Human Remains Protocol”. “If suspected human remains or cultural artifacts are discovered, all work in the immediate area must cease immediately, the area must be secured, and the Contracting Officer must be notified immediately for direction,” it says. The bodies of about 10,000 Palestinians are believed to be buried under the rubble in Gaza, according to Gaza’s civil defense agency.
It is unclear who owns the land where the military compound is set to be built, but much of the south Gaza area is currently under Israeli control. The UN estimates that at least 1.9 million Palestinians have been displaced during the war.
Diana Buttu, a Palestinian-Canadian lawyer and former peace negotiator, called building a military base on Palestinian land without the government’s approval an act of occupation. “Whose permission did they get to build that military base?”
Officials from US Central Command referred all questions about the military base to the Board of Peace.
A Trump administration official declined to discuss the military base contract: “As the President has said, no US boots will be on the ground. We’re not going to discuss leaked documents.”
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Israelis bomb Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon
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the Israelis bombed largest Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon, deaths are still being counted , a Palestinian source inside the camp told dpa on Friday.
Lebanon’s state news agency NNA said the strike targeted the camp’s Hittin neighbourhood, causing casualties, without specifying the number of dead or wounded.
The Israeli military said: ” the IDF [Israel Defense Forces] struck a refugee camp
The war between Israel and the Lebanese Hezbollah militia, which intensified throughout 2024, was followed by a ceasefire agreed in November of that year.
Under the terms of the agreement, Hezbollah was required to lay down its weapons
that would be bloody silly wouldn’t it ?
Despite the ceasefire, the Israeli military has conducted near-daily strikes on Lebanese villages
Ain al-Hilweh, in the south of the country, is the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, with approximately 80,000 residents. Most of the residents are refugees from the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948 and their descendants.
There are 12 Palestinian refugee camps across Lebanon where the israelis gather them all together in one small space
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BBC in another row over Bafta censorship row as it vows to clamp down on political speeches amid recent controversies
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BBC executives are keeping a watchful eye on this Sunday’s Bafta Film Awards amid concerns about politically-charged acceptance speeches, according to sources familiar with the production.
The heightened vigilance follows last summer’s Glastonbury Festival scandal, when the broadcaster faced widespread criticism for streaming Bob Vylan’s performance featuring chants of “death to the IDF.”
That incident has featured prominently in contingency planning for the ceremony, with both BBC staff and external producers at Penny Lane Entertainment determined to avoid broadcasting similarly controversial moments.
“They can’t have another Glastonbury — that’s the thing they keep talking about,” one person with knowledge of preparations told Deadline.
the public cheered Bob to the rooftops
But there is something called the eastern arts council, they actually pay festivals to put on ethnic performers,
Rap music etc is not liked by UK people, so the arts council pay festivals to have black performers, and some of what they sing about is racist in the extreme, white women are called ” whores” guns and shootings are sung about.
One of the very worst of these festivals is Green man wales, which they advertise is very LBGT freindly
e g not for normal people
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Bob Vylan | Source: PA
Bob Vylan | Source: PA
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BBC in Bafta censorship row as it vows to clamp down on political speeches amid recent controversies
Story by Olivia Gantzer • 19h •
BBC executives are keeping a watchful eye on this Sunday’s Bafta Film Awards amid concerns about politically-charged acceptance speeches, according to sources familiar with the production.
The heightened vigilance follows last summer’s Glastonbury Festival scandal, when the broadcaster faced widespread criticism for streaming Bob Vylan’s performance featuring chants of “death to the IDF.”
That incident has featured prominently in contingency planning for the ceremony, with both BBC staff and external producers at Penny Lane Entertainment determined to avoid broadcasting similarly controversial moments.
“They can’t have another Glastonbury — that’s the thing they keep talking about,” one person with knowledge of preparations told Deadline.
the public cheered Bob to the rooftops
But there is something called the eastern arts council, they actually pay festivals to put on ethnic performers,
Rap music etc is not liked by UK people, so the arts council pat festivals to have black performers, and some of what they sing about is racist in the extreme, white women are called ” whores” guns and shootings are sung about.
One of the very worst of these festivals is Green man wales, which they advertise is very LBGT freindly
e g not for normal people
Expand article logo Continue reading
Bob Vylan | Source: PA
Bob Vylan | Source: PA
© GB News
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426.2K Followers
BBC in Bafta censorship row as it vows to clamp down on political speeches amid recent controversies
Story by Olivia Gantzer • 19h •
BBC executives are keeping a watchful eye on this Sunday’s Bafta Film Awards amid concerns about politically-charged acceptance speeches, according to sources familiar with the production.
The heightened vigilance follows last summer’s Glastonbury Festival scandal, when the broadcaster faced widespread criticism for streaming Bob Vylan’s performance featuring chants of “death to the IDF.”
That incident has featured prominently in contingency planning for the ceremony, with both BBC staff and external producers at Penny Lane Entertainment determined to avoid broadcasting similarly controversial moments.
“They can’t have another Glastonbury — that’s the thing they keep talking about,” one person with knowledge of preparations told Deadline.
the public cheered Bob to the rooftops
But there is something called the eastern arts council, they actually pay festivals to put on ethnic performers,
Rap music etc is not liked by UK people, so the arts council pat festivals to have black performers, and some of what they sing about is racist in the extreme, white women are called ” whores” guns and shootings are sung about.
One of the very worst of these festivals is Green man wales, which they advertise is very LBGT freindly
e g not for normal people
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Bob Vylan | Source: PA
Bob Vylan | Source: PA
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“The Board of Peace is chaired by Donald Trump and led in part by his son-in-law Jared Kushner.”
Two jews on the laughable ‘board of peace’, what could possibly go wrong?
Erm, without the “government’s” permission? So it isn’t occupation if the “government” approves. Tell that to Okinawa. Tell that to all the occupied countries all over the world. Trump’s “peace plan” specifically calls for every shit that isn’t palestinian to run their lives (for the short time they’ll be allowed to continue living in the place they were born). In the usual blazing lack of intelligence, why doesn’t anyone ask why the palestinians never fought back against hamas? Answer: Because hamas were protecting them and fighting back against the tribe. The same way the IRA were fighting for Ireland and the Irish. The same way all resistance fights back. For the people, made up of the people. That’s why the tribe jumps through hoops to make them “terrorists”, so they can slaughter them as “bad guys”.
the jew clown show continues..
whats next…? Witkoff in floppy shoes on a unicycle blowing bubbles ?
@ftft
so simple as you think its not .
Hamas has its own Gestapo + spies .
and would surpress or kill any dissident .
Biden was the bulldozer for the new world order. Trump is the soft-seller. They’re a good cop/bad cop team. Which is the good one and which is the bad is determined by the politically divided population, so that half the team always is always preferred by half the people. It’s a clever political ploy to generate recurring dissatisfaction. By the time the majority of the public gets totally disgusted with the president it has, they get one from the opposite side to raise their hopes again and to spend four years disappointing them again. But both presidents are working for the globlist Uniparty, so whether it’s a fast or slow descent, it’s always in the same wrong direction.