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Born from the voluntary efforts of an interdisciplinary and intergenerational consortium of Palestinian experts, The Phoenix Gaza unites voices from Gaza, the West Bank, and the diaspora. Grounded in the land and communities of Palestine, our proposal weaves together knowledge from architecture, planning, law, sociology, politics, medicine, heritage, and more
—blending theory, practice, and lived experience into a shared vision of resilience and rebirth.
The Gaza Phoenix Framework is jointly promoted and owned by the Union of Gaza Strip Municipalities and the Platform for Reconstruction of Gaza (PROG). It was developed through a collaborative effort involving a multidisciplinary consortium of professionals and academics from the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and the Palestinian diaspora, in collaboration with international experts. The project team and promoters are firmly rooted in the Palestinian context, and all contributors have participated on a voluntary basis throughout every stage of the framework’s development.
—The Phoenix Gaza team believes in, and advocate for, a locally rooted, credible and all-around sustainable vision that revivificates Gaza and transitions it to the future.
The Union of Municipalities of Gaza Strip is a representative body that coordinates local governance, service delivery, and joint planning efforts across Gaza’s municipal institutions.
PROG is a collaborative platform uniting local and international actors to guide the just, community-driven reconstruction and regeneration of Gaza.
Anchored in the lived realities, history, and knowledge of its people. The Phoenix Gaza Framework rejects the treatment of Gaza as a blank slate, and instead proposes a flexible, community-empowering roadmap that honors local assets, relationships, and aspirations. Rooted in interdisciplinary expertise and guided by the vision of Gaza’s residents, it aims to preserve, renew, and reimagine the future of the Strip through just, locally led reconstruction.
The Phoenix Gaza Framework is a locally anchored, interdisciplinary reconstruction roadmap developed by Palestinian experts to guide just, participatory, and resilient recovery of the Gaza Strip. It blends emergency response with long-term urban planning, rooted in Gaza’s history, identity, and community needs.
The initiative is led by a voluntary, multidisciplinary team of Palestinian professionals and academics from Gaza, the West Bank, and the diaspora—deeply rooted in local knowledge and community engagement, and coordinated with local municipalities and grassroots actors.
Unlike top-down, technocratic plans that treat Gaza as a blank slate, the Phoenix Gaza Framework centers local identity, property rights, and community-led action. It resists erasure and exploitation, proposing tailored strategies that respect Gaza’s social fabric and spatial diversity.
Key principles include dignity-driven recovery, circular economy, preservation of cultural heritage, climate resilience, multiscalar planning, community participation, and integrated timelines—spanning emergency response, stabilization, and long-term development.
Municipalities are positioned as core partners and implementers. The framework promotes the strengthening of local governance, supports joint planning through the Union of Municipalities of Gaza Strip, and ensures consistent dialogue with public institutions.
The Master Plan developed by Dar Al-Omran (DAO) builds upon the Phoenix Framework by translating its principles into spatial strategies for Gaza 2050, covering regional, urban, neighborhood, and architectural scales, and proposing context-aware interventions across all sectors.
It means reconstruction is not just about infrastructure, but about restoring lives, justice, and community agency. It respects local memory, empowers indigenous knowledge, preserves social relations and heritage, and avoids displacement or imposed urban forms.