Overview

• Boston Consulting Group publicly disavowed the unauthorised Gaza relocation models, removed the two partners responsible and pledged to strengthen oversight of pro bono projects.
• The UK Parliament’s Business and Trade Committee has demanded detailed disclosures and accountability from BCG over its role in planning voluntary migration scenarios for Gazans.
• Save the Children suspended its two-decade partnership with BCG, and other aid organizations have paused collaborations as the firm faces a reputational crisis.
• Financial documents revealed BCG’s modelling projected that up to 25 percent of Gaza’s population—about half a million people—could accept $9,000 relocation packages to countries such as Somalia and Somaliland, generating roughly $4.7 billion in benefits for host states.
• Rights groups, UN experts and foreign officials denounced the proposals as akin to ethnic cleansing, and East African leaders rejected diplomatic incentives tied to hosting Palestinian deportees.