"Exclusive: Proposal outlines large-scale 'Humanitarian Transit Areas' for Palestinians in Gaza", 7 July 2025

A proposal seen by Reuters and bearing the name of Gaza Humanitarian Foundation] described a plan to build large-scale camps called “Humanitarian Transit Areas” inside - and possibly outside - Gaza to house the Palestinian population, outlining a vision of "replacing Hamas' control over the population in Gaza."

The $2 billion plan...was submitted to the Trump administration, according to two sources, one of whom said it was recently discussed in the White House.

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 U.S. President Donald Trump's "vision for Gaza."

Reuters could not independently determine the status of the plan, who created and submitted it, or whether it is still under consideration.

The aid group, responding to questions from Reuters, denied that it had submitted a proposal and said the slides "are not a GHF document." GHF said it had 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 said it is solely focused on food distribution in Gaza.

A spokesperson for SRS, a for-profit contracting company that works with GHF, told 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 document included the GHF name on the cover and SRS on several slides...

The White House did not respond to a request for comment.

The proposal was laid out in a slide presentation that a source said was submitted to the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem earlier this year.

The U.S. State Department declined to comment. A senior administration official said, "nothing of the like is under consideration. Also, no resources are being directed to that end in any way."

The source working on the project said that it had not moved forward due to a lack of funds...

The Israeli Embassy in the U.S. did not respond to a request for comment...

The proposal did 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?"

GHF would “oversee and regulate all civil activities required for construction, deradicalization and temporary voluntary relocation,” the proposal said...