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US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner revealed a “master plan” concerning the redevelopment of the Gaza Strip.

Using slides exhibiting improvement plans and pictures exhibiting skyscrapers and glitzy residences titled “New Gaza,” Kushner mentioned the Palestinian territory would grow to be “a place that the people there can thrive, have great employment.”

“In the Middle East they build cities like this, you know for two or three million people, they build this in three years,” Kushner mentioned. “And so stuff like this is very doable if we make it happen.”

Kushner spoke of investments of not less than $25 billion (€21.3 billion) to rebuild destroyed infrastructure and public providers within the devastated Palestinian territory.

“It could be a hope. It could be a destination,” he mentioned.

The battle between Israel and the Hamas militant group induced widespread devastation throughout the Gaza Strip. It was triggered by the Hamas-led assaults in southern Israel on October 7, 2023. Hamas is designated as a terror group by the US, the EU, Israel, Germany and different nations.

A ceasefire took impact final October, which has lowered the extent of bombing and preventing and elevated support deliveries, however for tons of of hundreds of individuals in Gaza proceed to dwell in momentary shelters at displacement camps or in bombed-out buildings.

More than 470 folks have been killed by Israeli hearth in Gaza for the reason that ceasefire started in October, in response to the Health Ministry in Gaza. The ministry, part of the Hamas-led authorities, maintains detailed casualty data which are seen as typically dependable by UN businesses and unbiased specialists.

Trump is chairman of the so-called Board of Peace, designed to supervise the Gaza truce and the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip after the battle between Hamas and Israel. Traditional US allies, comparable to France and Britain, have raised doubts concerning the board. Countries have been requested to pay $1 billion for everlasting membership, and the invitation for Putin, whose nation invaded Ukraine practically 4 years in the past, has additionally sparked controversy.

Nearly a yr in the past, Trump floated plans to transform Gaza right into a “Riviera of the Middle East,” a transfer that drew condemnation from many quarters. Trump has referred to as the devastated Gaza Strip “great real estate.”

At the time, he additionally appeared considerably imprecise on questions coping with what would occur to Palestinians dwelling there, however mentioned it could be populated with “the world’s people … Palestinians also, Palestinians will live there. Many people will live there.”