The Tony Blair Institute has acknowledged that two of its employees joined discussions on a contentious blueprint to redevelop Gaza after the war, confirming details first reported by the Financial Times. The proposal, outlined in a 30-page slide deck called “The Great Trust”, envisaged transforming the devastated territory into a low-tax trading hub anchored by a beach-front “Trump Riviera” resort and an “Elon Musk Smart Manufacturing Zone.” Drafted by Israeli tech investors with modelling support from Boston Consulting Group, the presentation projected that Gaza’s economic value could reach $324 billion and included artificial islands, blockchain-based trade systems and other large-scale infrastructure. Central to the plan was a compensation scheme aimed at persuading as many as 500,000 Palestinians—about one-quarter of the enclave’s population—to leave permanently, a provision critics say amounts to ethnic cleansing. TBI initially denied involvement but later conceded that its staff took part in group calls and messaging channels with the organisers, though it stressed that the institute neither authored the deck nor endorsed the relocation concept. An internal TBI paper titled “Gaza Economic Blueprint”, shared in the same forum, overlaps on economic ideas but omits any population-transfer element. BCG withdrew from the initiative in May and dismissed two consultants amid internal objections. Human-rights advocates have condemned the project, and TBI says its founder, former U.K. prime minister Tony Blair, was only in “listening mode” during a London meeting with one organiser. No government has publicly adopted the plan.