U.S. Project to Turn Gaza into a "Shining Metropolis"
World
Special envoys of U.S. President Donald Trump have presented an ambitious ten-year plan for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip called "Project Sunrise." The project is estimated to cost $112 billion, and its goal is to turn the war-torn enclave into a thriving metropolis.
According to The Wall Street Journal, U.S. President's Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner have developed a $112 billion plan for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip. The project, codenamed "Sunrise" (Project Sunrise), is designed for ten years and aims to radically transform the devastated territory.
According to the authors' concept, the result should be a "shining Metropolis"; however, the published materials lack answers to key practical questions. It is not specified which countries or private companies will become investors, nor where approximately 2 million Palestinian residents of Gaza will live during the large-scale reconstruction.
The plan was presented against the backdrop of ongoing negotiations. In October 2025, with the mediation of several states, Israel and Hamas resumed indirect dialogue. In early December, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that the first part of Trump's peace plan was already nearing completion, and the next stages would be the disarmament of Hamas and the demilitarization of the enclave, to which the movement had previously expressed conditional readiness.
Thus, the ambitious reconstruction project currently exists in isolation from detailed mechanisms of financing and logistics and is inextricably linked to the progress of extremely complex political and military negotiations.
According to the authors' concept, the result should be a "shining Metropolis"; however, the published materials lack answers to key practical questions. It is not specified which countries or private companies will become investors, nor where approximately 2 million Palestinian residents of Gaza will live during the large-scale reconstruction.
The plan was presented against the backdrop of ongoing negotiations. In October 2025, with the mediation of several states, Israel and Hamas resumed indirect dialogue. In early December, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that the first part of Trump's peace plan was already nearing completion, and the next stages would be the disarmament of Hamas and the demilitarization of the enclave, to which the movement had previously expressed conditional readiness.
Thus, the ambitious reconstruction project currently exists in isolation from detailed mechanisms of financing and logistics and is inextricably linked to the progress of extremely complex political and military negotiations.
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