Al-Haq warns of the grave implications of the Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation (GREAT) Trust, a US–Israeli engineered scheme designed to entrench Israel's unlawful occupation of the Gaza Strip, facilitate the forcible transfer of the Palestinian population, and accelerate the annexation and exploitation of Palestinian land and natural resources.

Marketed as a programme for "recovery" and "development", the GREAT Trust is an extension of Israel's genocidal campaign and settler-colonial project. Conceived without Palestinian participation and predicated on the denial of the Palestinian people's right to self-determination, the plan seeks to transform Gaza – following its near-complete destruction by Israel, with US weaponry – into a commercial arena for foreign investors.

Under the GREAT Trust, Gaza would be placed under a foreign trusteeship initially administered by the US through a bilateral agreement with Israel. Israel would retain "overarching rights" over all security matters, thereby formalising and deepening its effective control over the territory. This structure repackages ongoing racial domination and subjugation as a temporary "transition", while in effect institutionalising Israeli authority over Palestinians in Gaza and conditioning any form of Palestinian governance on Israeli approval of long-term security arrangements and on the ultimate "Palestinian polity" being forced to join the Abraham Accords. By conditioning Palestinian political rights on the acceptance of Israel's regional objectives, the plan flagrantly violates peremptory norms of international law.

The GREAT Trust frames mass displacement as "voluntary relocation", despite Israel's genocidal campaign having destroyed 92 percent of Gaza's housing units, starving Palestinians and decimating civilian infrastructure. The purported "choices" offered to Palestinians are merely a guise for their forcible transfer from and constitute coercion under conditions deliberately engineered for their removal. Those who remain would be confined to highly restricted "temporary housing zones" implemented by the notorious Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), an entity already implicated in mass casualties at its aid distribution points and repeatedly aligned with Israeli military agendas.

Envisioned as a high-tech, foreign investment-driven enclave featuring "AI-powered smart cities", "water hubs", "manufacturing zones", and tourism ventures such as the "Gaza Trump Riviera", the Gaza Strip stands to be further isolated from the West Bank. Moreover, these ventures depend on the expropriation of Palestinian land and the exploitation of Gaza's natural resources—most notably the Gaza Marine gas field—for the benefit of foreign corporations and US regional partners.

Notably absent from the plan is any provision for the reconstruction or return of Palestinian communities. Maps associated with the initiative erase Palestinian presence altogether, reducing Gaza to an investment asset for US-Israeli geopolitical, capitalist interests. This constitutes a flagrant violation of the Hague Regulations, the Fourth Geneva Convention, and peremptory norms of customary international law.

The GREAT Trust omits the fundamental reality that Gaza remains occupied, as reaffirmed by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in its landmark Advisory Opinion on the Legal Consequences Arising From the Politics and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and that Israel's ongoing mass killing, starvation, displacement, and destruction of the Palestinian people constitute genocide. Rather than addressing the root causes of Gaza's devastation – Israel's 18-year blockade, illegal occupation, apartheid regime, and the ongoing genocidal assault – the plan reframes Gaza's need for redevelopment as governance failure, obscuring the criminal responsibility of Israel, the Occupying Power, and its Western allies.

As stressed throughout Part II of the Trump Trilogy, any initiative concerning Gaza that excludes the Palestinian people, their political agency, and their internationally recognised right to self-determination is legally invalid and morally unacceptable. Notwithstanding the GREAT Trust's fundamental illegality, it will now guide and inform the implementation of Trump's '20-point plan' for the Gaza Strip which, in a dangerous development on 17 November 2025, has now been enshrined in UN Security Council Resolution 2803.

1. Strongly and publicly reject each of Trump's three plans for the Gaza Strip as a blatant violation of peremptory norms of international law, including the prohibition on the use of force and the right to self-determination;
2. Refrain from investing in public partnerships set up by the '20-point plan', which – if implemented – will uphold the provisions of the GREAT Trust and Economic Peace to Prosperity Plan as they relate to Gaza's economic development and foreign investment in the Palestinian territory. Instead, consider independent reconstruction projects in Gaza, endeavoured for the Palestinian people and consented to by the Palestinian people;
3. Refrain from hosting Palestinians forcibly displaced from Gaza under Israel's "voluntary immigration" plans, to avoid incurring responsibility for aiding and abetting this serious violation of international law;
4. Collaborate at the UN to reject UN Security Council Resolution 2803 and prevent its implementation, along with any future US plans regarding Palestine that deny the Palestinian people their fundamental rights in the interests of promoting its own geopolitical, capitalist interests;
5. Enact legislation prohibiting national companies from being involved in the intentional theft of Palestinian lands, or implement such existing legislation;
6. Take measures to sanction Israel for its wholescale destruction of Gaza and the Palestinian people, including an arms embargo, seeking accountability of those responsible before national and/or international courts, and cutting economic and ties with Israel; we urge in particular the European Union to suspend/terminate the Association Agreement with Israel.