- Immigrant Times
- Sep 1
- 3 min read
Updated: 7 days ago
GAZA PLAN EXCLUDES PALESTINIANS
Private postwar plan envisages the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from Gaza
By The Immigrant Times*
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September 2025: While Israel continues its airstrikes on Gaza, a group of Israelis and Americans has put together a post-war plan for the territory. The document, called the ‘Gaza Reconstruction, Economic Acceleration and Transformation (GREAT) Trust and first unearthed by the Washington Post, envisages the relocation of Gaza’s entire population of more than two million people.
It is thought that the plan has been devised by people from the Boston Consulting Group and former Israeli intelligence officers. No Palestinians or groups from other Arab countries were involved.
It is also not clear whether this plan was part of the discussions that took place at the White House between President Donald Trump, his son-in-law Jared Kushner, his Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
The GREAT plan envisions Gaza as a US-administered trusteeship for at least a decade, during which its entire population of over two million Palestinians would be ‘voluntarily’ relocated. Some would be transferred to third countries, others confined to ‘secure zones’ or camps within Gaza while rubble is cleared and infrastructure rebuilt. Each person who departs would receive $5,000 in cash, four years of rent subsidies, and a year’s worth of food. Landowners would be issued digital tokens redeemable for future housing or to finance resettlement elsewhere.
The proposal’s most controversial feature is its erasure of Gaza’s current demographic reality. The envisioned ‘Gaza Riviera’ would rise on land emptied of its original inhabitants, replaced by AI-powered smart cities and luxury resorts. Security would be managed by third-country nationals and private contractors until a ‘reformed’ Palestinian government emerges. The plan makes no mention of Palestinian statehood.
Assumptions made by the authors of the ‘GREAT’ plan for Gaza
Temporary housing option - Gazans remain in Gaza during reconstruction
• They receive temporary housing in designated areas and compounds. They will be supplied with life-support services.
• Assumption 1: 75 per cent of Gazans remain in Gaza
• Assumption 2: 90 per of Gazans who remain in Gaza will require temporary housing
Gazans relocate to a different country
• East person receives a relocation package worth US$5,000
• Each person/family receives rent subsidies for four years, starting at 100 per cent in the first year and falling to 25 per cent in year four.
• Each person/family receives food subsidies for one year.
• Assumption 1: Some 25 per cent of Gazans will leave their homeland.
• Assumption 2: Some 75 per cent of those leaving will not return.
The authors of the plan make no secret that their preferred option would be the expulsion of as many Palestinians from Gaza as possible. Every departure would save the Trust US$23,000 compared to the cost of temporary housing and providing life-support services, including housing, food, education and medical services. Critics argue it amounts to engineered displacement, cloaked in the language of voluntarism and redevelopment.
For many Gazans, the offer is not a choice but a forced trade: homeland for housing, identity for infrastructure. “This is my homeland. I refuse to be made to go to another country,” one resident of the Gaza town of Khan Younis told the Washington Post.
Civil society groups have condemned the plan as a violation of international law. The Council on American-Islamic Relations called it “morally abhorrent and illegal… a war crime of historic proportions”.
Environmental and public health experts warn that reconstruction must begin with restoring Gaza’s devastated infrastructure—not replacing its population. “The war has led to soil contamination, the collapse of water and sanitation services, and toxic air pollution,” said Ahmed H. Hilles, a Palestinian environmental analyst. “Any recovery must prioritise environmental health and community participation—not displacement.”
No Middle Eastern country has yet offered Palestinians evacuated from Gaza a home, nor has the US. It is estimated that any takeover of Gaza by private American-Israeli consortia would result in tens of thousands of people seeking refuge in Turkey and other European countries.
*Sources: The Gaza Reconstruction, Economic Acceleration and Transformation was first unearthed by the Washington Post and subsequently shared with international media, including The Immigrant Times.
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