The United States is preparing to build a military base along Gaza’s border, according to the Israeli outlet Shomrim. The project, estimated at over $500 million, could host several thousand U.S. troops and marks the clearest step toward a foreign occupation of Palestinian territory — under the pretext of “supervising” the ceasefire.

The report reveals that U.S. officials have already met with Israeli authorities and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to determine the exact site of the base. Behind the technical language of “peace plan implementation” lies a new phase of militarization and control over Gaza, aimed at consolidating the enclave’s fragmentation and securing U.S. and Israeli interests in the region.

The current truce — which has effectively divided Gaza into two zones — was presented as a step toward reconstruction, yet the presence of American troops introduces a decisive shift: the replacement of Palestinian sovereignty with foreign administration. The proposal, promoted by Jared Kushner, even envisions rebuilding parts of the territory to attract displaced residents into areas “freed from Hamas” — language that masks the creation of Western-controlled zones far removed from any democratic will of the Palestinian people.

If realized, this base would mark a turning point in U.S. direct military involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Until now, Washington has maintained only about 200 soldiers at the Central Military Coordination Center (CMCC) in Kiryat Gat, southwest of Tel Aviv. Building a large-scale base on Gaza’s border would represent a qualitative leap in Israel’s subordination to the White House and the U.S. military-industrial complex.

This project follows the controversy over the “humanitarian” aid operations controlled by Washington, which ended in massacres of starving civilians. The so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), the only entity authorized to distribute food, became yet another instrument of control and humiliation for Palestinians. Now, the same CMCC may take full control of future aid deliveries, replacing Israeli agencies without changing the colonial logic that reduces Palestinian life to a matter of military management.

Washington presents its intervention as part of a peace plan, including a proposed “International Stabilization Force” (ISF) meant to disarm Hamas and form a new Palestinian police. Yet this force is accountable neither to any Palestinian authority nor to the United Nations, but rather to U.S. unilateral design. Several Arab countries have already refused to take part, aware that the plan seeks to legitimize a prolonged occupation under a different name.

For decades, U.S. imperialism has financed and armed Israel’s occupation. Now, it aims to consolidate a neocolonial protectorate in Gaza, disguised as a humanitarian mission. The proposed “reconstruction” is not about restoring sovereignty to the Palestinian people — it is about ensuring they can never truly exercise it.