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Board of Peace Unveils $2.45 Billion Gaza Recovery Plan With 66 Projects and Security Force
Early rebuilding is tied to postwar control, crossings, and stabilization terms.
Early rebuilding is tied to postwar control, crossings, and stabilization terms.
Trump’s Gaza recovery plan sits at the center of a wider struggle over who will control postwar reconstruction, security, and day-to-day governance in the territory. The $2.45 billion package is meant to launch an early phase of rebuilding, but it also ties aid to a and a , making financing and control as important as the physical repairs.
The plan estimates Gaza's at $35.2 billion and puts at about $71.4 billion over the next decade. That leaves the $2.45 billion package as an initial , not a complete solution, and keeps financing and leverage tied to future phases.
Reporting said the plan was the product of about a year of joint work by experts from the 28-member and the Palestinian technocratic government. That gave the blueprint both outside political backing and a claim to local administrative ownership.
The proposal also includes a as part of the . That links reconstruction funding to who secures Gaza, how are managed, and whether the territory can be stabilized enough for rebuilding to continue.
Trump's Board of Peace was set to unveil a six-month, $2.45 billion built around 66 projects. The package focuses on temporary housing, , hospital repairs, road and , and early economic recovery.
Later reporting on the damage assessment repeated that Gaza had suffered $57.9 billion in total damage and . The figures underscored that any early recovery package would be only the opening phase of a much longer .
A final estimated that Gaza would need about $71.4 billion over the next decade for . It also said roughly $26.3 billion would be needed in the first 18 months to restore , rebuild critical infrastructure, and support economic recovery.
The Trump peace framework moved into a second phase that created a transitional in Gaza under supervision of a chaired by Trump. That phase also linked reconstruction to and the wider setup.