COMMENT | 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.

By 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.