President Trump on Wednesday said that Hamas could end the war in Gaza if they “IMMEDIATELY give back all 20 hostages.” But Hamas has repeatedly offered to return all remaining hostages and did so again this week. Surely President Trump knows this. Israel has rejected those hostage exchanges because it would require them to leave the Gaza Strip — something they refuse to do. Meanwhile, a recently leaked document outlines a Trump-approved plan to transform a depopulated Gaza into a high-tech, AI-powered hub dubbed the “GREAT Trust” — essentially a Riviera-style development project to revitalize the region’s economy. It is a vision for “a US-led multilateral custodianship” lasting a decade or longer and leading to “a reformed Palestinian self-governance after Gaza is “demilitarized and de-radicalised.” In other words: while Trump touts hostage returns as the single path to peace, his administration also quietly floated a plan that treats Gaza as a blank canvas for elite development — one that requires de facto control over the territory and sidelines any meaningful political negotiation. The post Hostages or High-Rises? Trump’s Contradictory Gaza Strategy appeared first on Redacted.