Trump to Host White House Meeting on Post-War Gaza Plans

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U.S. President Donald Trump will convene a high-level meeting at the White House on Wednesday to discuss post-war plans for Gaza, his envoy Steve Witkoff announced on Tuesday.

“We’ve got a large meeting in the White House tomorrow, chaired by the president, and it’s a very comprehensive plan we’re putting together on the next day,” Witkoff said in a Fox News interview. He declined to provide further details, but confirmed the talks would focus on a “day-after” framework for Gaza, once the conflict ends.

Trump sparked global controversy earlier this year when he proposed that the United States should take control of the Gaza Strip, evacuate its roughly two million residents, and redevelop the territory into what he described as the “Riviera of the Middle East.”

The former president suggested that Washington would oversee the removal of rubble and unexploded ordnance before opening up the Mediterranean enclave to luxury real estate projects.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the idea at the time, but it was widely condemned by European and Arab governments, who described it as impractical and dismissive of Palestinian rights.

While Witkoff did not elaborate on the specifics of the latest plan, he insisted it would be “robust” and “well meaning.”

The ongoing war in Gaza was triggered by Hamas’s October 2023 attack on Israel, which left 1,219 people dead, mostly civilians, according to official Israeli figures compiled by AFP.

Israel’s subsequent military campaign has killed at least 62,819 Palestinians, the majority of them civilians, according to Gaza’s health ministry figures regarded as credible by the United Nations.