The White House has announced the first members of its Gaza 'Board of Peace', and the list of names will do little to dispel the criticism from some quarters that the US president's plan resembles, at its heart, a colonial solution imposed over the heads of the Palestinians.
There are still several unknowns - namely who else might be added, and the exact structure of what is currently a rather complicated layout.
So far, no Palestinian names are included on the two separate senior boards that have been officially unveiled.
One is a 'founding Executive Board', with a high-level focus on investment and diplomacy. The other, called the 'Gaza Executive Board', is responsible for overseeing all on-the-ground work of yet another administrative group, the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza (NCAG).
That committee is made up of supposedly technocratic, apolitical Palestinians, led by Dr Ali Shaath, a civil engineer by training who's held ministerial positions in the Palestinian Authority.
But of the seven members of the founding Executive Board, six are Americans - including US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other members of Trump's inner circle like his son-in-law Jared Kushner, and Steve Witkoff, who is US Special Envoy to the Middle East, but also a friend of the president and a fellow real estate developer.
Ajay Banga, president of the World Bank, is something of an exception as an Indian-born US citizen. Sir Tony Blair, meanwhile, is a former UK Prime Minister, and his inclusion is likely to further fuel concerns about how the Board of Peace will operate.
Over the past few weeks, criticism of Sir Tony's possible inclusion has come from figures like prominent politician Mustafa Barghouti, general secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative, and newspaper reports quoting unnamed officials from Arab states in the region.
Sir Tony's central role in the Iraq war, coupled with Britain's own colonial history in the Middle East, is deemed by his opponents to make him entirely unsuitable.
Francesca Albanese, the United Nations' special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, wrote on social media last year: 'Tony Blair? Hell no. Hands off Palestine.'
Even Trump seemed to acknowledge the issue.
'I've always liked Tony, but I want to find out that he's an acceptable choice to everybody,' the president said last October.
Several other prominent names populate the boards, including Turkish, Qatari, and Emirati diplomats, positioning significant international weight behind the initiative. Nonetheless, significant challenges remain, with humanitarian conditions deteriorating and a precarious ceasefire in place.
The UN estimates around 80% of buildings in Gaza have been destroyed or damaged, and families who have survived the war are struggling with the winter weather and a lack of food and shelter.
Aid groups report some improvements but accuse Israel of imposing restrictions that hamper their work. Israel claims any limitations are essential to prevent Hamas from exploiting humanitarian efforts, and must ensure security while facilitating aid delivery.
