Gaza Herald- The Gaza Center for Human Rights has expressed deep concern over reports of a U.S. plan to establish housing complexes for Palestinians within areas controlled by the Israeli military in Gaza, under arrangements managed by a U.S.-led Civil-Military Coordination Room.
The Gaza Center for Human Rights warned that reports of an Israeli-U.S. plan linking reconstruction and basic rights to political and security conditions violate international humanitarian law, which requires the occupying power to ensure residents’ rights without coercion
The center noted that the plan subjects residents to a joint military administration aimed at redistributing the population within Gaza, restricting the right to adequate housing, freedom of movement, and safe living, while also infringing on individual and collective land ownership rights.
The rights center warned that the project begins with engineering interventions, such as debris removal and field planning, but extends toward social engineering that imposes new realities on the ground without Palestinian participation or safeguards for affected rights.
It emphasized that this approach treats civilians as subjects of political experimentation, bypassing the international obligation to rebuild according to the needs and rights of the population rather than external agendas.
The center argued that the involvement of military and engineering teams in the project disregards the priority of protecting civilians and restoring basic rights destroyed during the Israeli military aggression.
It also noted that all unilateral measures contravening human rights charters were reinforced by the UN Security Council vote last Monday, November 17, 2025, in favor of Resolution 2803, which entrenches the occupation of Palestinian land and undermines Palestinians’ right to self-determination
The center warned that the resolution enables the proposed administrative authority to use humanitarian aid as a tool of control, working with groups linked to mass atrocities and Israeli-backed armed formations under the occupation’s coordination.
The rights center urged international actors to respect humanitarian law by avoiding coercion, forced displacement, or interference in residents’ livelihoods, and called for reconstruction and planning efforts to prioritize the population’s rights and needs with genuine local participation, free from political or security conditions.
The center warned that foreign-led reconstruction marginalizes Palestinians, ignoring their priorities and rights, and cautioned that imposing a foreign occupation in Gaza under vague criteria would deepen Palestine’s fragmentation and Gaza’s isolation.
The center called for an international stance preventing the use of humanitarian suffering as a tool to reshape the political reality at the expense of the population’s fundamental rights.
