New Delhi, Dec. 21 -- The US State Department's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs on Sunday came down heavily on news reports claiming that the US would pay for more than half of the Trump administration's $112 billion plan to rebuild war-torn Gaza.

"This is fake news. Nowhere in the plan does it say the U.S. will pay $60 billion," the State Department's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs posted on X, rubbishing the report.

While the immediate reaction came against a report by New York Post, the first look into the Donald Trump administration's reconstruction plan for Gaza was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.

Dubbed Project Sunrise, as reported by WSJ, the "sensitive but unclassified" $112 billion proposal was drafted by a team led ...