A Plan to Rebuild Gaza Lists Nearly 30 Companies. Many Say They’re Not Involved

A sweeping plan to reconstruct Gaza, which has been shared pinch Trump management officials, features nan names and logos of much than 2 twelve companies—some of which show WIRED they had nary knowledge they were named aliases involved.

The presentation outlining nan scheme was reportedly created by immoderate of nan businessmen who helped ideate what became nan arguable nonprofit nan Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which is presently starring assistance distribution successful Gaza, calling for nan creation of a caller entity called nan Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation (GREAT) Trust.

In nan presentation, logos from Tesla, Amazon Web Services, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) look alongside slug points astir nan use "private manufacture investment” whitethorn person successful Gaza successful position of building retired "key infrastructure" for illustration information centers and "gigafactories." On 1 slide, nan logos of respective companies, including Ikea, look alongside descriptions of large-scale "infrastructure rebuild" and "peacekeeping (optional)" successful Gaza.

WIRED contacted nan 28 companies shown alongside proposals for construction, security, and private-sector finance successful postwar Gaza—sectors that would beryllium among nan first to mobilize if nan plans were to beryllium group successful motion. Of nan companies that responded, zero said they were alert of their names and logos being utilized successful this proposal.

Eight of those companies replied to WIRED and said that they had not been successful interaction pinch anyone who developed nan position aliases made moreover informal plans aliases agreements pinch them. Some had perfectly nary knowledge they were named successful this plan.

“This was astonishing and caller accusation for us,” Ikea spokesperson Arvid Stigland tells WIRED. “We person not approved nan usage of nan Ikea logo successful this context.”

“TSMC is not associated pinch this connection and did not consent to nan usage of its logo,” a institution spokesperson told WIRED.

InterContinental Hotels Group spokesperson Mike Ward tells WIRED that nan institution “has had nary engagement successful this archive and is not pursuing immoderate plans connected to it.”

Tesla, Amazon, and Constellis did not respond to requests for comment.

Of nan information contractors mentioned successful nan presentation, only G4S responded to WIRED’s query. It denied immoderate relation pinch immoderate existent aliases early group called “the GREAT Trust.” “We person had nary communications frankincense acold and person nary plans to participate successful information services successful Gaza,” a G4S spokesperson tells WIRED.

A personification pinch knowledge of nan presentation, who requested anonymity successful bid to speak freely, said that it was created arsenic a shape of marketplace research, demonstrating which companies could lend to redevelopment alternatively than which ones had discussed aliases agreed to anything.