Gaza Recovery Plan Includes Digital ID and Biometric Infrastructure

The Board of Peace overseeing Gaza's reconstruction has unveiled a $2.45 billion recovery plan under President Trump's Comprehensive Peace Plan, with digital transformation as a core pillar including a mandatory digital ID system, 4G connectivity, data centers and a digital government ecosystem. A think tank proposal envisions layered biometric verification tied to financial accounts for accessing services, echoing similar recovery-linked digital ID rollouts in Somalia and Sudan. Building population-wide biometric identity and payment infrastructure into a war-recovery framework shows how crises can accelerate systems making access to services dependent on centralised digital identity.