Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have a new vision for Gazalago. 
Please note the highly implausible ‘Project Sunrise’ Plan to Turn Gaza Into High-Tech Metropolis
Beachside luxury resorts. High-speed rail. AI-optimized smart grids.
Welcome to “Project Sunrise,” the Trump administration’s pitch to foreign governments and investors to turn Gaza’s rubble into a futuristic coastal destination.
A team led by President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, two top White House aides, developed a draft proposal to convert the bombed-out enclave into a gleaming metropolis. In 32 pages of PowerPoint slides, replete with images of coastal high-rises alongside charts and cost tables, the plan outlines steps to take Gaza residents from tents to penthouses and from poverty to prosperity.
The presentation is labeled “sensitive but unclassified,” and doesn’t go into details about which countries or companies would fund Gaza’s rebuilding. Nor does it specify where precisely the 2 million displaced Palestinians would live during reconstruction. The U.S. has shown the slides to prospective donor countries, U.S. officials said, including wealthy Gulf kingdoms, Turkey and Egypt.
“They can make all the slides they want,” said Steven Cook, a senior fellow for the Middle East at the Council on Foreign Relations think tank who just traveled to Israel but didn’t see the draft. “No one in Israel thinks they will move beyond the current situation and everyone is okay with that.”
The project, according to the draft, would cost a total of $112.1 billion over 10 years, though the U.S. would commit to being an “anchor” supporting nearly $60 billion in grants and guarantees on debt for “all the contemplated workstreams” in that time period. Gaza could then self-fund many projects over the following years of the plan, the proposal projects, and eventually pay down its debt as improvements fuel local industry and the broader economy.
The proposal acknowledges on the second page, bold and in red, that Gaza’s reconstruction depends on Hamas “to demilitarize and decommission all weapons and tunnels.”
The rebuild would proceed in four phases, starting in the south with Rafah and Khan Younis before moving northward to “center camps” and, finally, the capital Gaza City.
One slide, titled “New Rafah,” sees it serving as Gaza’s “seat of governance” and home to more than 500,000 residents. They would live in a city with more than 100,000 housing units, 200 or more schools, and more than 75 medical facilities and 180 mosques and cultural centers.
The plan estimates the entire effort would cost $112.1 billion, including the public-sector payroll, over those 10 years, with much of it at the start going to humanitarian needs. Just under $60 billion would be financed by grants ($41.9 billion) and new debt ($15.2 billion) in that time period, with the U.S. offering to “anchor” 20% or more of the support. The World Bank would also play a financing role.
Costs are projected to taper off as Gaza makes money heading into the plan’s second decade. The proposal calls for monetizing 70% of Gaza’s coastline beginning in year 10, and estimates the glitzy riviera could lead to over $55 billion in long-run investment returns.
A three-phase plan is still in “Phase 1,” as Hamas has yet to hand over its last hostage—the body of Ran Gvili. If that happens, Israeli forces can begin their withdrawal from Gaza in “Phase 2” as Hamas lays down its arms, vowing never to seek power in the enclave again. Only then, with Gaza no longer home to Hamas militants or occupied by Israeli forces, could the multi-year rebuild begin in “Phase 3.”
From This to Gazalago
Please note Gaza Sits Under 68 Million Tons of Rubble.
Thousands of Israeli airstrikes, along with fighting on the ground and controlled demolitions, have destroyed more than 123,000 buildings in the Gaza Strip and left an additional 75,000 damaged to varying degrees, accounting for 81% of all the structures in the enclave, according to the latest review of satellite images by the United Nations.
That has generated about 68 million tons of debris, according to the U.N. Development Program, which is overseeing rubble removal in Gaza. That is equivalent to the weight of around 186 Empire State Buildings. Distributing that amount of rubble evenly across Manhattan would leave around 215 pounds of debris on every square foot.
The rubble is mixed with unexploded ordnance—the bombs, missiles, rocket and artillery projectiles that failed to detonate. There are also human remains—the bodies of some 10,000 people which remain trapped beneath the rubble, according to Palestinian health authorities.
The work to remove the rubble can only begin in earnest if Israeli authorities allow into Gaza heavy machinery and equipment needed to move debris and destroy unexploded ordnance.
Meanwhile, the living conditions for Gaza’s more than 2 million residents remain dire. Most Palestinians are staying in tents pitched in overcrowded camps for the displaced and rubble-strewn streets. The onset of winter has worsened conditions, with heavy rains flooding camps.
How long, exactly, will depend on funding, Israel’s willingness to allow the necessary equipment into Gaza and the political will on both sides to keep the cease-fire in place.
The U.S. is hoping Arab Gulf states will foot a big part of the overall reconstruction bill, which the U.N. estimates will be around $70 billion. No agreement has been reached.
I would like to see the plans, but cannot find them anywhere. All the stories link back to the Wall Street Journal article at the top of this post.
But we have seen enough to know this is a major Fantasyland proposal.
Anyone care to guess the odds of success for this plan as described?
FYI: Wells Wilder’s Reverse Point Wave Signal, also in Edward and McGee’s Technical Analysis of Stock Trends, has an 83 percent historical chance of proving correct. Daneric’s Elliott Wave theory is also pointing down.
We’ll see if the FED counters.
This Utopian City was built at the cost of 112.1 billions. No, no, not 112.1billions but 1 trillion by Muslim countries. Why not? It’s just a dream.
The Palestinians live in the Utopian city freely, self governed, side by side with Israel. Why not? It’s just a dream.
And Utopian city will not be wiped out again by Israeli’s bombs because of Article 5 like guaranteed by US and NATO. Why not? It’s just a dream.
DREAM BABY, DREAM
first we need to get rid of an organization that would rather kill jews than help Palestinians to prosper. Hamas exists in order to exterminate Jews
If a country were, over a period of 75+ years, to rape, pillage and murder your family and steal your land, would you fight back?
The American Indians did and look where they wound up.
Palestinians can’t afford these houses, Israelis can. Is this the plan?
Palestinians can’t afford anything. This is why they depended on generations of welfare handouts from the UNRWA and other Arab countries.
I’m quite sure Trump and the Israelis do not deserve any involvement. The Russians, Chinese and their allies may just patiently wait for the total Russian defeat of Ukraine, the defeat of Israel by Iran and their allies, and then the resulting destruction of the dollar and economic chaos in the USA. This patient and steady war of attrition on all these fronts may eventually destroy the Anglo-American Israeli/globalist empire. It’s not looking good and I think Trump is accelerating this very possible result. If that happens, I don’t see much of Israel remaining. Most of their population will leave and emigrate to various countries around the world. Can’t say I see this happening for sure, but if Trump keeps alienating and going to war with much of the world, it’s certainly a possibility. We’re not as powerful as Trump and most Americans believe.
You aren’t very “savvy’ or smart, Dallas but that is generally a Texan affliction imparted at birth or upon moving into the state. So you are stuck with these issues.
They might be waiting a long time. When’s the last time Russia even captured anything meaningful in Ukraine? And they’ve suffered over 100k casualties this year alone? That doesn’t sound like the road to victory to me, it sounds a lot like America’s experience in Vietnam, except Russia can hardly afford a Vietnam compared to America circa 1970.
Where’d you get that Russian casualty number?
Last time? Try today, yesterday and the day before that. Putin is toying with Ukraine. His grinding, slow war of attrition is winning– not only against Ukraine, but the USA and Europe who are depleting their arms reserves, going further and further into debt and losing credibility all over the world.
On the positive side, cleaning up and building this gaudy masturbatory dream would likely require the movement of many natives (AKA “Palestinians”) to other places outside of Gaza, which means Jordan and Egypt, primarily.
Further, there is no water in Gaza. There never was and Gaza depended on Israel for much of its water supply. There were some jury-rigged desalination plants but nobody monitored or inspected them. Much of the water they produced was contaminated with bacteria.
There is also the issue of what to do with the waste salts from desalination. You can’t just dump them back into the ocean because too much will kill the local sea life. On top of this, the Gazan water table has been totally polluted and drained.
Gazan Arabs should be dispersed to other countries,. Then once the land is cleaned, Gaza should be turned into a park where very few people live and no oceanside hotels or vacation resorts should be allowed to be built.
Gaza is their rightful home. I would bet on the dissolution of Israel before this monstrosity is built. They want to strike again at Iran and when they do, that’s all she wrote. Israel will lose, they’ll launch a nuke against Tehran, and soon thereafter Israel will cease to exist.
The whole USA was the American Indians original home. The point you wanted to make was?
Jordan ejected them once, and Egypt doesn’t want them either.
Plus environmental and health pollutants like asbestos, which was heavily used in Gaza construction and diesel pollution from all the military vehicles.
How do you dispose of everything? WHERE do you process and dispose of all the pollutants?
Palestine Health Authority doesn’t have a great track record with truth
That’s easy. You just bulldoze it into the Mediterranean. It’s only 186 Empire State buildings. All of it would just make a nice pier or some breakwaters for a few marinas.
Cities have been doing that for centuries. My home town in Canada dumped it’s garbage for decades into a bay on Lake Ontario to turn a swamp into a huge park.
True luxury can only be built on the bones of murdered children.