Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was shown CGI images showing Gaza as an idyllic urban and rural settlement.

       The blueprints come after President Donald Trump unveiled controversial plans to redevelop the enclave into the “Riviera of the Middle East”. He also suggested the two million Palestinians would not be able to return and would be resettled elsewhere.

       The grand designs, dubbed “Gaza 2035”, show the strip filled with futuristic skyscrapers and a 132-mile railway to NEOM, a ￡1.2 trillion ambitious megacity under construction in Saudi Arabia.

       Having shared his controversial proposal at a press conference with Israel’s PM last week, it's been claimed Mr Trump may have been shown the plans.

       "Trump didn't wake up in the morning and come up with the idea, there would have been routes to this, probably from Israel - it was planted somehow,” Nadav Shtrauchler, a former strategist for Netanyahu, told The Sun.

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       The proposal promised "US dominance" and to deliver the wore-torn Gaza "from crisis to prosperity" by rebuilding the enclave "from nothing".

       It has been estimated that 59.8% of the buildings in the Gaza Strip have been damaged or destroyed since the start of the war, according to Academics Corey Scher of CUNY Graduate Center and Jamon Van Den Hoek of Oregon State University.

       The ultimate goal of the redevelopment plan would be to turn Gaza into a self-governing free trade zone, complete with offshore oil rigs and solar energy fields.

       The first phase would see Israel spend 12 months ensuring the region free of Hamas to create a “safe zone” - starting in the North and moving South. Arab countries, including Saudi, Egypt and the UAE would supervise humanitarian aid managed by Palestinians from Gaza.

       The second phase - to take five to 10 years - would see a coalition of Arab countries form a multilateral body, the Gaza Rehabilitation Authority, which would “supervise” Gaza’s reconstruction and manage the Strip’s finances. A "Marshall Plan" would be implemented, reminiscent of the American programme for reconstructing Europe after World War Two.

       Palestinians will govern Gaza independently after signing the Abraham Accords in the third and final stage.

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       It is believed that Mr Netanyahu was handed the proposal for Gaza—drawn up by a group of primarily Israeli businessmen close to the PM—in late 2023. The proposal was later circulated after it was examined by his inner government circle, and it is understood that his input influenced Trump’s announcement.

       “The Gaza Strip would be turned over to the United States by Israel at the conclusion of fighting,” Mr Trump said.

       He added Palestinians “would have already been resettled in far safer and more beautiful communities, with new and modern homes, in the region”.

       The shock announcement attracted backlash from both Arab countries and the UK and has been described by multiple countries as a “dangerous” plan.

       The President called his vision a “beautiful real estate plan” and a “development for the future.” Netanyahu praised it as the “first original idea to solve this problem once and for all".

       After Trump announced the plan, Keir Starmer said: "The most important issue on the ceasefire is obviously that it is sustained and that we see it through the phases, and that means that the remaining hostages come out and the aid that is desperately needed gets into Gaza at speed and at the volumes that are needed…

       "They must be allowed home. They must be allowed to rebuild, and we should be with them in that rebuild on the way to a two-state solution."

       Foreign Secretary David Lammy said: " On an issue of Gaza, looking at those scenes of Palestinians who have been horrendously displaced over so many months of war, it's clear that Gaza is lying in rubble. We've always been clear in our belief that we must see two states. We must see Palestinians able to live and prosper in their homelands, in Gaza, in the West Bank, that is what we want to get to.

       "That is why it's important that we move out of phase one of this hostage deal, to phase two, and then to phase three, and reconstructed Gaza. We played our part in that support for reconstruction, working alongside the Palestinian Authority and alongside Gulf and Arab partners, that's the guarantee that we all need to ensure that there is a future for Palestinians in their home."