Trump S Gaza Plan Is Another War Crime

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US President Donald Trump’s 20-point plan for Gaza is nothing short of an insult to international law, to the memory of the tens of thousands killed, and to the Palestinian people who continue to live under siege.
After being complicit in a genocide, Washington now proposes “redevelopment” together with Israel, former United Kingdom prime minister Tony Blair, and other Western allies - a grotesque attempt to repackage colonial control as humanitarian reconstruction.
It is the same playbook: destroy, dispossess, then rebuild for profit, all without the participation of the very people whose land has been devastated into rubble.
This plan is not about Gaza’s future; it is about cementing Israeli dominance.
ADSBy excluding Palestinians from decision-making, it strips them of agency in their own homeland, perpetuating the apartheid logic that views them as a demographic problem to be managed, not as a people with rights.
Trump’s vision, edited by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, turns Gaza into a laboratory for neoliberal experiments, dangling “development” and “jobs” while ignoring the root of the crisis: Israel’s decades-long military occupation, blockade, and the systematic denial of Palestinian self-determination.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin NetanyahuEqually troubling is the way this plan erases the political reality that Hamas remains the legitimately elected government of Gaza.
One may debate Hamas’ governance record, but that does not erase the fact that Palestinians exercised their democratic right to choose their leadership in 2006: a right systematically denied to them since, and with violence inflicted by Israel.
Instead, the US and its allies invoke the Oct 7, 2023, attack as permanent justification for collective punishment: the bombing of homes, schools, and hospitals, the killing of children, the starvation of civilians.
Geneva Convention
These acts flagrantly contravene the Geneva Convention and international humanitarian law. And yet Trump’s plan offers no accountability, only business opportunities.
By framing Gaza as a “security problem” for Israel and a “development opportunity” for outsiders, the plan deliberately sidesteps the core issue: the right of return for refugees, the end of occupation, and the dismantling of apartheid structures.
Reconstruction without justice is a continuation of violence by other means. Palestinians do not need Blair’s handpicked technocrats or Israel’s military overseers dictating their future.
They need the freedom to govern themselves, to rebuild their society on their own terms, and to exercise sovereignty free from siege and external interference.
The international community must reject this cynical plan outright. Genuine peace requires a radical break from the cycle of militarism and profiteering.
It requires an immediate, permanent ceasefire to end the ongoing genocide; the lifting of the blockade on Gaza, beginning with the entry of aid by the flotillas and other friendly entities; international accountability for war crimes committed by Israel and its allies; and recognition of Hamas and other Palestinian political actors as legitimate stakeholders in negotiations, whether or not the West approves of them.
ADSNothing less than an equitable solution based on the rights and aspirations of the Palestinian people is acceptable. To continue denying Palestinians a seat at the table is to guarantee endless bloodshed.
The only viable solution is rooted in decolonisation and justice: an end to occupation, the dismantling of apartheid systems, and a political settlement that enshrines equal rights, self-determination, and dignity for Palestinians.
Anything less is not peace, but a managed cage.
Trump’s 20-point plan must be exposed for what it is: an extension of the same violence Palestinians have endured for generations, now dressed up in the language of “development.”
World leaders have no option except to denounce this sordid plan and unite to support a Palestinian state unequivocally.
True reconstruction begins not with foreign contracts and Israeli control and oversight, but with freedom, accountability, and the return of power to the people of Palestine. - Mkini
This statement was jointly issued by:
1. NURUL IZZAH ANWAR
2. CHEE YOKE LING
3. JISMI JOHARI
4. CHARLES SANTIAGO
5. AFFENDI SALLEH
The views expressed here are those of the author/contributor and do not necessarily represent the views of MMKtT.

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