The US and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation proposed building camps called “Humanitarian Transit Areas” inside – and possibly outside – Gaza to house the Palestinian population, according to a proposal reviewed by Reuters.

The $2bn plan, created after 11 February for the GHF, was submitted to Donald Trump’s administration and recently discussed in the White House, according to a source familiar with the matter cited by Reuters. 

The plan describes “large scale” sites where the Palestinian population in Gaza could “temporarily reside, deradicalize, re-integrate and prepare to relocate if they wish to do so”. 

A slide deck seen by Reuters goes into detail about these Humanitarian Transit Areas, and how they would be used to “gain trust with the local population” and facilitate Trump’s “vision for Gaza”. 

In February, Trump said that the US should “take over” Gaza and rebuild it as the “Riviera of the Middle East”, after ethnically cleansing the population outside of the territory. 

The undated slide presentation, which includes photos dated 11 February, said that the GHF was “working to secure” over $2bn for the project, to “build, secure and oversee large-scale Humanitarian Transit Areas (HTAs) inside and potentially outside Gaza Strip for the population to reside while Gaza is demilitarized and rebuilt”.

The GHF told Reuters that the slides were not a GHF document, adding that 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”.

A senior US administration official told Reuters “nothing of the like is under consideration”, noting that “no resources are being directed to that end in any way”.