A sweeping and controversial postwar plan for Gaza is circulating inside the Trump administration, envisioning the relocation of the enclave’s entire population and the transformation of the war-torn territory into a U.S.-administered economic and tourism hub, The Washington Post reported Sunday.
The 38-page proposal, dubbed the Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation Trust — or GREAT Trust — reflects President Donald Trump’s repeated pledge to “take over” Gaza. It lays out a decade-long U.S. administration that would redevelop the territory into high-tech “smart cities,” industrial zones, and luxury beachfront resorts.
At the heart of the plan: relocating Gaza’s more than 2 million residents. According to the documents, departures could take the form of voluntary resettlement abroad or movement into heavily secured zones within the enclave during reconstruction. Every Palestinian who leaves Gaza would receive a $5,000 cash grant, four years of rent subsidies, and a year’s worth of food.
The trust calculates that relocating each resident would save roughly $23,000 compared with providing temporary housing and basic services on-site. Landowners would be compensated with “digital tokens” redeemable for housing in six to eight planned AI-powered smart cities inside Gaza — or to finance new lives abroad.
The plan stresses it would require no U.S. taxpayer funding. Instead, it pitches itself as a magnet for private capital, projecting a nearly fourfold return on a $100 billion investment over ten years. Potential mega-projects include electric vehicle plants, data centers, high-rise apartments, and beach resorts.
Some of the same Israeli operatives behind the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation — which currently distributes food in Gaza under U.S. and Israeli supervision — helped design the GREAT Trust. Financial modeling was carried out by former Boston Consulting Group analysts, though the firm later distanced itself, saying the work was never formally approved. Two senior partners were dismissed.
Trump convened a closed-door White House meeting last Wednesday to review postwar options. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, special envoy Steve Witkoff, former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair, and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner — who spearheaded the administration’s first-term Middle East initiatives and retains private business interests in the region — all attended.
No decisions emerged from the session. Witkoff described the administration’s planning as “very comprehensive,” while the White House declined to comment.
The plan contrasts sharply with alternative proposals from the United Nations, Arab states, and the Palestinian Authority, which have floated models for technocratic or international administration. Israel, for its part, has ruled out restoring control of Gaza to the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority and insists on retaining security control.
Legal experts warn the GREAT Trust could collide with international law. Any plan that blocks Palestinians from returning to their homes or fails to ensure adequate shelter, food, and medical care could be deemed unlawful, regardless of the financial incentives attached.
The proposal envisions starting with clearing debris and unexploded ordnance, then rebuilding power and water systems before launching new industrial and tourism zones along Gaza’s borders. The planned smart cities would combine residential, commercial, and industrial development with schools, clinics, parks, and green spaces.
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What country would Gaza be part of? Who will own Gaza? After Israel sacrificed for it it must be annexed by Israel.
While “Witkoff described the administration’s planning as “very comprehensive,” it is anything but. For starters this plan doesn’t at all address what the status of this territory will be. If it remains as occupied territory under the jurisdiction of Israeli miliary control and subject to Israeli military courts then this is not a place for serious business as the first thing business needs is a formal legal system.
Then there is the fact that 2.2 million people are allot of people, yet the plan imagines they will all find different countries to accept them where they will all agree to disappear to.
However the most fantasy like thing about this plan is the idea that electric car companies along with major tech companies will all come rushing to set up in this tiny parcel of land in the middle of nowhere when by their very nature car factories need to located near business that make other car parts and data centers need to be located as close to the population centers they serve.
This plan is also based on the idea that its impossible to find an available parcel of land the size of Gaza anywhere in the Western world, let alone in the US, when this is clearly not the case. On top of this it fails to address who will be living there and working there, is the idea that it will be Israelis meaning it will effectively become part of Israel, or will hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world pick themselves up to live in this semi no mans land.
The people who have been living in Gaza the last 75 years aren’t likely to agree unless they get something (hint: they would like Gush Dan back, the way it was in the 19th century).
I like the part about getting Gazans to leave. The rest is wishful thinking.
president trump and his advisors seem to be under the delusion that the problem in gaza is economic. it is not. the real problem is security, and unless this plan provides a workable solution, including boots on the ground and rules of engagement that permit the use of deadly force to stop terrorism, it’s just putting lipstick on a pig. or an economic front to protect hamas.
Y. Glazier:
Not to worry. If Moshiach hasn’t come first, then it will likely be an American territory like Guam or Puerto Rico. Once that’s done, they will likely take over the rest of the holy land currently administered by the Zionists, as that makes the most sense to end the Zionists’ forever wars and let Jews live in peace there, finally, after over a century of destruction and wars caused by the Zionists.
Not pashut your missing the forest for the trees
Everyone else….dunno wait and see
An important precedent. If the next administration offers $10K to every secular Israeli to relocate, in order to establish a single state “from the river to the sea” – the cost would be reasonable (much less than $100 billion) and the war would end. Those Israelis who live in Eretz Yisrael for mitzvah regions would end up with a return to the “millet” status.
Remember most of the world supports the Palestinian argument that Jews are Euro-American colonists. Any think Trump dreams up, they’ll do you one better, and we won’t like it.