Gaza redevelopment plans provide coverage for ethnic cleansing, critics say: Report

Plans  to develop a “Gaza Riviera,” circulating in the White House, have been dismissed as an “insane” attempt to provide cover for the large-scale ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the strip, The Guardian reported on Monday. 

Referencing the leaked proposals for a high-tech hub and resorts in Gaza published in The Washington Post on Sunday, the plans are said to have been developed by the Boston Consulting Group and the same Israelis who created and developed the highly-criticised US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) and would lead to the "temporary relocation" of two million Palestinians.

Philip Grant, executive director of human rights group Trial International told The Guardian, “This is a blueprint for mass deportation, marketed as development".

"The outcome? A textbook case of international crimes on an unimaginable scale: forcible population transfer, demographic engineering, and collective punishment,” he added.

GHF has failed to deliver adequate food to Palestinians in Gaza, and has deliberately killed more than 1,40o people by the hands of Israeli soldiers and US mercenaries, and wounded thousands of others, many fatally.