This representation taken from Israel's borderline with the Gaza Strip shows fume billowing implicit destroyed buildings during an Israeli onslaught connected the besieged Palestinian territory connected July 17, 2025.
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A papers detailing plans for post-war Gaza aims to marque President Donald Trump's "Gaza Riviera" imaginativeness a world — utilizing wide displacement, artificial intelligence, and astatine slightest a decennary of U.S. trusteeship implicit the war-ravaged enclave.
The plan, outlined successful a 38-page papers that was disclosed by the Washington Post, is reportedly nether information by Trump's administration. It involves "voluntary" relocation of Gaza's colonisation successful speech for integer tokens, six to 8 "AI-powered astute cities," and a manufacturing hub named aft Elon Musk.
It besides calls for the entirety of Gaza's colonisation of 2 cardinal to beryllium relocated, astatine slightest temporarily, done either what it calls voluntary departures to different country, oregon the moving of residents into impermanent lodging areas wrong the Strip during reconstruction.
The program was developed by immoderate of the aforesaid Israelis down the arguable U.S.- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), according to the Washington Post, which archetypal reported connected the document. The GHF, whose stated extremity is to supply nutrient wrong the enclave, has received dense disapproval from U.N. experts for allegedly being "exploited for covert subject and geopolitical agendas successful superior breach of planetary law."
The State Department and White House did not instantly respond to CNBC requests for comment.
Gaza would beryllium nether U.S. trusteeship for astir 10 years "until a reformed and deradicalized Palestinian Polity is acceptable to measurement successful its shoes," according to the plan, entitled the Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation Trust, oregon GREAT Trust. It promises to alteration the long-blockaded territory, connected which much than 60,000 Palestinians person been killed since the commencement of the Israel-Hamas warfare connected Oct. 7, 2023, into a glittering tourism edifice and tech hub.
"Reconstruction volition besides summation worth of Gaza by ~$324B and dramatically amended prime of life," the papers states. The GREAT Trust would statesman nether an archetypal U.S.-Israel bilateral agreement, and Israel would support "overarching rights to conscionable its information needs," according to the document.
The State Department and White House did not instantly respond to CNBC requests for comment.
People stitchery successful the gait of the Ahli Arab hospital, besides known arsenic the Baptist hospital, to mourn and bid farewell to the bodies of victims killed successful Israeli bombardment successful Gaza City, connected March 18, 2025.
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The authors of the program assertion that nary national backing oregon donations would beryllium required; it would alternatively beryllium financed by backstage and nationalist assemblage concern successful what it describes arsenic "mega-projects," from information centers and electrical conveyance factories to luxury apartments and seaside resorts.
The improvement program besides envisions utilizing astir 30% of Gazan onshore that is nationalist — leased to the Trust for up to 99 years — and immoderate investments arsenic its archetypal superior and assets, which it claims constitutes a $300 cardinal plus worth with "self-generating gross streams."
Gazans who take to relocate to different state would beryllium fixed a $5,000 relocation package, 4 years of rent subsidies, and 1 twelvemonth of nutrient subsidies, according to the document. The program assumes that 25% of Gazans would take to permission the country, and of those, 75% would take not to return.
U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a gathering successful the Oval Office of the White House successful Washington, DC, connected April 7, 2025.
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The program claimed that this method would prevention $23,000 connected each Palestinian relocating compared to costs of supporting those who enactment wrong Gaza. At nary constituent does the papers code planetary law, Palestinian absorption to wide relocation, oregon absorption to this program by different Arab states, who person agelong demanded a authorities and self-determination for Palestinians.
The plan's "end state" is Gaza's "self-governance nether the Abraham Accords" — a model that establishes diplomatic relations with Israel — though determination is nary notation of an officially recognized Palestinian state.
Gaza residents who permission onshore that they ain would besides person a "digital token" by the GREAT Trust successful speech for the close to make their property, and tin "redeem their tokens for ownership of rebuilt residences," according to the plan.
Trump first announced his imaginativeness of a "Gaza Riviera" nether U.S. ownership successful February, drafting swift condemnation and daze from planetary leaders, and Middle Eastern allies similar Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates successful particular. Rights groups person accused Israel of carrying retired taste cleansing and genocide successful Gaza, charges that the Israeli authorities forcefully denies. Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has praised Trump's idea.
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