Hamas denounced on Monday a plan reportedly being considered by US President Donald Trump for the United States to take control of the devastated Gaza Strip and for its population to be relocated.

Hamas political bureau member Bassem Naim said that they can "Soak it and drink its water, as the colloquial  Palestinian proverb says". "Gaza is not for sale," he added.

Rumours surrounding a 38-page prospectus floating around Trump's White House, which aims to transform the territory into a tourism magnet and high-tech hub started on Sunday, when the Washington Post reported on the proposed plan.

This prospectus calls for at least the temporary relocation of all of Gaza's population, either through "voluntary" departures to other countries or into restricted, secured zones inside the territory.

Trump first floated the idea in February of turning Gaza into "the Riviera of the Middle East" after moving out its Palestinian residents and putting it under American control.

Naim stated that "any plan that centers on displacing our people is worthless and unjust, and can not be implemented, because it contradicts our historical and national rights".

He stressed that Hamas did not even receive any formal proposal or indication that such an action may be on the table, and that all information at present regarding this plan came from the media.

Other media reports also quoted another Hamas member saying that "The so-called displacement plan reflects an old colonialist thinking predicated on removing native peoples from their land, which provides a continuing pretext for the Israeli occupation to persist in its expansion and domination".

The reports on the recycled Trump/Netanyahu plan for Gaza comes as Tel Aviv pushes ahead with a military offensive to take Gaza City and ethnically cleanse one million Palestinians to the south of the strip. It als comes as Tel Aviv refuses to respond to the most recent truce proposal, presented by Egypt and Qatar, and agreed to by Hamas in mid-August.