It is the American newspaper The Washington Post that comes with the information about the 38-page document that outlines what – if President Donald Trump gets his way – will become the "Riviera of the Middle East".
The plan sketches a modern society with green areas, luxurious housing, skyscrapers, modern infrastructure and a factory for electric cars. The area is intended to become a tourist magnet and a hub for tech innovation.
How the strip is to be governed is unclear, but according to the plan, some form of joint administration will initially take place where the US has a prominent role together with Israel, to later result in "a reformed Palestinian self-government".
The reconstruction is expected to take at least ten years.
5,000 dollars and paid rent
The population of around two million people is expected to either move "voluntarily" to another country against a cash payment of 5,000 dollars and promises of paid rent for five years and food for one year, or settle in designated zones within Gaza during the reconstruction.
According to the document, those who own land will be offered a kind of digital currency that can be used to start a new life outside Gaza or exchanged for a home when the reconstruction is complete.
Many killed
Some of the architects behind the plan are the same people who are behind the highly controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), which handles food distribution in Gaza. In connection with GHF's distribution of food, more than 1,300 people have been killed, according to the UN human rights agency OHCHR.
Neither the White House nor the US State Department has commented on the information.
Israel has since the outbreak of war in October 2023 killed over 60,000 Gazans, according to the Ministry of Health in the Hamas-ruled Gaza, whose figures are often cited by the UN and other international organizations.
A number of experts have previously condemned similar Trump plans for the Gaza Strip as contrary to international law, as they would, among other things, violate the right to self-determination and the prohibition of forced displacement.
