Yesterday’s (31.08.2025) Washington Post post, revealing Donald Trump’s plan to convert the Gauze strip In a “Riviera of the Middle East”, caused her angry reaction Hamas.
At the same time that Israeli military forces are “tightening the cluster” to the Gaza Strip with the aim of eliminating every trace of Hamas from the Palestinian enclave, the Washington Post report “dropped oil into the fire” and created the US.
In contact with the French Agency, the State Department did not respond immediately to the newspaper report on this plan, which was published a few days after a meeting in Washington, which, according to Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkov, is supposed to be a meeting. would examine a “very complete plan” for the post -war period in the Gaza Strip.
The plan for the “Riviera of the Middle East”
The 38 -page plan, seen by the American newspaper, It provides for the “voluntary” relocation of about two million Gaza residents to other countries or to safe areas within the Palestinian enclavewhich has been destroyed by almost two years of war, and will be rebuilt to become a tourist and technology center.
The Palestinian region will be placed for ten years under the command of an entity called Great Trust, which will then give way to a “reformed and disgusting Palestinian entity”, according to the same source.
Those who agree to leave will receive $ 5,000 in cashas well as aid that covers four years of rent and a year of food, According to the plan reported by the Washington Post.
Land holders will offer a “digital coupon” in return for the redevelopment of their ownership, according to the post. According to the report, the project is entitled “Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation Trust, or Great Trust” (Gaza Reconstruction, Economic Acceleration, Transfiguration) and was developed by GHF.
Behind the American plan lies the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), supported by the US and Israel, with shadow funding, which began distributing help in May 2025.
Hamas’s response
«Gaza is not for sale“Bassem Naim, a member of Hamas’ political office, said on social media, arguing that the area is an” integral part of the Great Palestinian homeland “. At the same time he said that “Hamas and our people reject this plan.
In early August, The UN announced that more than 1,000 people have been killed trying to get help in Gaza Since GHF began to operate in May 2025. The majority of the victims was shot by Israeli forces that were operating near GHF facilities.
On February 4, 2025, the US President first stated publicly that The US should “take over” the leveled and starving lane of Gazaand rebuild it in a “Middle Eastern Riviera” after reinstalling the Palestinian population elsewhere.
This statement of intentions of Trump enraged many Palestinians and humanitarian organizations on the possible forced relocation from Gaza. The plan was rejected by Arab and Western countries, as well as by the UN.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu supported the plan announced in February by US President Donald Trump, who said he said he said he said He wanted to take over the “control” of Gaza and turn it into the Riviera of the Middle Eastreiterating that the population of the area could move elsewhere.
«Hamas rejects all these plans that displacing our people and hold the conqueror on our land“, Another Hamas official said, speaking on the condition that he not be named.