Gaza Is a Crime Scene, Not a Real Estate Opportunity

"For those of us who have mourned the loss of countless loved ones killed by the Israeli military over the past 27 months and watched our family homes reduced to rubble, the "New Gaza" vision unveiled by President Donald Trump and Jared Kushner in Davos is an outrageous moral affront. To see AI-generated renderings of luxury high-rises and "coastal tourism zones" atop the literal ruins of our lives is not a vision of peace. It is a blueprint for erasure."

"This Gaza is portrayed as a futuristic dreamscape of gleaming apartment blocks, data centers, and luxury towers lining the Mediterranean shore in place of the cities and towns Israel has systematically destroyed-and in fact continues to destroy despite the supposed ceasefire. During his presentation, Kushner praised the value of Gaza's "waterfront property," and spoke of planning for "catastrophic success," effectively recasting mass killing and genocide into an investment opportunity."

"Even in a best-case scenario, this plan will likely make Gaza unaffordable for most Palestinians and separate them into "technocratic" camps under the oversight of an "Executive Board" of foreign CEOs run by Trump. Of even greater concern, by prioritizing "industrial zones" and "tech-driven governance" while ignoring Palestinian human rights and Israel's ongoing campaign to make Gaza unlivable-such that Palestinians have no choice but to leave-this vision amounts to soft ethnic cleansing."

Countless Palestinians endured killings and home destruction across 27 months while a proposed "New Gaza" envisions luxury towers, data centers, and coastal tourism built atop ruined neighborhoods. The plan is tied to Jared Kushner, whose family connections to Israeli leadership and prior settlement funding shape the proposal. The presentation framed Gaza's waterfront as an investment opportunity and described planning for "catastrophic success," normalizing violence as economic potential. The proposal ignores Palestinian rights and ongoing campaigns that make Gaza unlivable, risks pricing out residents, segregating them into technocratic zones overseen by foreign executives, and functions as a form of soft ethnic cleansing that perpetuates apartheid.

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