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Plan said to outline ‘humanitarian transit’ camps to house Gazans before possible relocation
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA proposal bearing the name of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation suggests building camps called “Humanitarian Transit Areas” inside — and possibly outside — Gaza to house the Palestinian population, according to a proposal reviewed by Reuters, outlining its vision of “replacing Hamas’ control over the population in Gaza.”
The $2 billion plan, created sometime after February 11 and carrying the name of the US-backed group, was submitted to the Trump administration and recently discussed in the White House, according to a source familiar with the matter.
The plan, reviewed by Reuters, describes the camps as “large-scale” and “voluntary” places where the Gazan population could “temporarily reside, deradicalize, re-integrate and prepare to relocate if they wish to do so.”
A slide deck seen by Reuters goes into granular detail on the “Humanitarian Transit Zones,” including how they would be implemented and what they would cost.
It calls for using the sprawling facilities to “gain trust with the local population” and to facilitate US President Donald Trump’s “vision for Gaza,” which includes relocating Gaza’s population of 2 million Palestinians to an undetermined location.
The proposal does not specify how the Palestinians would be relocated into the camps, or where the camps could be built outside Gaza, but a map shows arrows pointing to Egypt and Cyprus as well as other points labeled “Additional Destination?”
Reuters cannot independently determine the status of the plan, who submitted it, or whether it is still under consideration.
The aid group, responding to questions from Reuters, denies that it had submitted a proposal and says the slides “are not a GHF document.” The GHF says it has studied “a range of theoretical options to safely deliver aid in Gaza,” but that it “is not planning for or implementing Humanitarian Transit Areas (HTAs).”
Rather, the organization says it is solely focused on food distribution in Gaza.
A spokesperson for SRS, a for-profit contracting company that works with GHF, tells Reuters “we have had no discussions with GHF about HTAs, and our ‘next phase’ is feeding more people. Any suggestion otherwise is entirely false and misrepresents the scope of our operations.”
The Times of Israel Community.