Trump administration mulls post-war Gaza plan with decade-long US control, relocation of population: Report

A post-war blueprint for Gaza is circulating within US President Donald Trump’s administration, proposing that Washington oversee the enclave for at least a decade, while its population is temporarily relocated and the territory is rebuilt as a tourist and manufacturing hub, The Washington Post reported on Sunday.

According to a 38-page prospectus cited by the newspaper, Gaza’s two million residents would either “voluntarily” leave for another country or be placed in restricted areas inside the territory during reconstruction.

Earlier, Reuters reported that a separate plan envisaged large-scale camps, termed “Humanitarian Transit Areas,” inside – and potentially outside – Gaza to accommodate Palestinians. That initiative was linked to the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a controversial aid group.

The Post further reported that under the proposal, landowners would be compensated with “digital tokens” granting rights to redevelop their property. Each Palestinian who departed Gaza would receive $5,000 in cash, subsidies for four years of rent, and a year’s worth of food assistance.

The Post said the plan is called the ”Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation Trust, or GREAT Trust,” and was developed by the GHF.

GHF coordinates with the Israeli military and uses private U.S. security and logistics companies to get food aid into Gaza. It is favoured by the Trump administration and Israel to carry out humanitarian efforts in Gaza as opposed to the UN-led system which Israel says lets militants divert aid.

In early August, the U.N. said more than 1,000 people have been killed trying to receive aid in Gaza since the GHF began operating in May 2025, most of them shot by Israeli forces operating near GHF sites.

The White House and State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but the plan to rebuild Gaza appears to fall in line with previous comments made by Trump.

On February 4, Trump first publicly said that the U.S. should ”take over” the war-battered enclave and rebuild it as ”the Riviera of the Middle East” after resettling the Palestinian population elsewhere.

Trump’s comments angered many Palestinians and humanitarian groups about the possible forced relocation from Gaza.

Israeli forces pounded the suburbs of Gaza City overnight from the air and ground, destroying homes and driving more families out of the area as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s security cabinet was set on Sunday to discuss a plan to seize the city.

The Israeli military has gradually escalated its operations around Gaza City over the past three weeks. On Friday it ended temporary pauses in the area that had allowed for aid deliveries, designating it a ”dangerous combat zone”.

With inputs from agencies