A 38-page plan circulating in the Trump administration outlines a U.S.-run trusteeship for postwar Gaza, proposing to transform the devastated enclave into a hub of luxury resorts and technology industries — while uprooting millions of Palestinians in the process.

The proposal, obtained by The Washington Post, is being condemned as a continuation of Israel’s decades-long project of dispossession.

The plan, known as the Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation (GREAT) Trust, envisions relocating Gaza’s entire population of more than two million. It suggests “voluntary” departures abroad or confinement to “secure zones” inside Gaza during a ten-year rebuilding phase. Those who agree to leave would receive a $5,000 cash payment, four years’ rent, and food for a year, along with digital land “tokens” redeemable for apartments in new “AI-powered smart cities.” The trust, developed with input from Israeli businessmen and U.S. consultants, predicts investors could quadruple a $100 billion stake within a decade.

President Donald Trump has spoken openly about “taking over” Gaza, calling it a prime site for a “Riviera of the Middle East.” His vision, amplified by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, treats Gaza’s ruins as prime real estate, while ignoring the rights of Palestinians who have endured nearly two years of bombardment and siege.

Since October 2023, Israel’s war on Gaza has killed more than 63,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and displaced hundreds of thousands. Nearly half a million face catastrophic hunger, according to humanitarian monitors. The United Nations estimates that 90 percent of homes have been destroyed. International law experts have characterized Israel’s campaign as collective punishment amounting to genocide.

The Trump plan offers no path to Palestinian sovereignty. Instead, it places control in foreign trusteeship backed by private security contractors and Western investors. Rutgers law professor Adil Haque told The Post that denying Palestinians the right to return, regardless of financial incentives, would be unlawful. For Palestinians, the scheme recalls the Nakba of 1948, when over 700,000 were expelled during Israel’s creation, and the 1967 war, when Israel occupied Gaza and the West Bank in defiance of international law.

Palestinians have repeatedly rejected proposals or pressures to relocate to another country, insisting on remaining in their ancestral homeland. Resistance movements in Gaza and their allies have argued that only continued struggle can safeguard Palestinian existence against projects of erasure dressed up as reconstruction.

Far from offering peace, critics warn Trump’s plan exemplifies a colonial blueprint: strip a people of their land, commodify their suffering, and sell their homeland to the highest bidder.