U.S. media on August 31 that the Trump administration is considering a U.S.-led plan to rebuild the Gaza Strip and will control the Gaza Strip for at least a decade.
Hamas strongly condemned it on September 1, saying Gaza is not for sale.
According to the Washington Post, according to a 38-page plan by the Trump administration, the U.S. plans to transform it into a “tourist destination” and a “high-tech center” after taking over the Gaza Strip, while about 2 million Gaza residents will be relocated, including “voluntarily” to another country, or to deploy the so-called “safe zone” controlled inside the Gaza Strip, until the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip is complete.
The plan stipulates that those willing to leave will receive $5,000 in cash and a four-year rental subsidy and one-year food aid, while landowners will receive a “digital token” to fund a new life abroad or exchange for a future housing set to be built in Gaza.
Gaza will be managed by an agency called the Gaza Reconstruction, Economic Acceleration and Transition Trust Fund for a period of 10 years, after which it will be transferred to a “reformed and decentralized Palestinian entity.”
For this plan, Hamas Political Bureau Commissioner Naim expressed a strong condemnation on September 1 and stressed that “Gaza is not for sale, but part of the broader Palestinian home.”Another Hamas official said Hamas “rejects all plans to abandon the people of Gaza and allow the occupants to continue to defile our land.”
U.S. President Donald Trump proposed in February that the U.S. would take over the Gaza Strip, suggesting that the population of Gaza be relocated to Egypt and Jordan, and then that the U.S. could transform Gaza into a “tourist destination in the Middle East.”