"The plan itself was first outlined to an incredulous world by Trump in February. The details have now emerged. It involves the expulsion the de facto imprisonment of 2 million Palestinians, while the US administers the exclave for 10 years. Each Palestinian would be paid $5,000 each plus four years' rent somewhere else and one year's supply of food. Gaza is then rebuilt as a skyscraper wonderland of artificial intelligence investment and tourism. It would be a second Dubai yielding up to $400bn for developers."
"The scheme's private contractors would be the same humanitarian trust now supplying food to the famine-hit territory. Trump said that the Palestinians would be better off living beautifully in another location. The Americans might one day see a reformed and deradicalised Palestinian polity ready to step in its shoes. It is inconceivable that the plan would be deemed acceptable anywhere, apart from in Israel."
A US-backed proposal would expel and effectively imprison two million Palestinians in Gaza while the United States administers the territory as an exclave for ten years. Each displaced person would receive $5,000, four years' rent elsewhere and one year's food supply. Gaza would be demolished and rebuilt as an AI- and tourism-focused skyscraper hub aimed at generating up to $400 billion for developers, managed by private contractors currently supplying humanitarian aid. The proposal assumes Palestinians could be relocated and later replaced by a reformed, deradicalised polity. Alternative futures include Arab League- or Egypt-backed reconstruction or a return to the Oslo framework.
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