"It is envisioned as a kind of Dubai or Singapore, boasting numerous tourist skyscrapers along the waterfront, a transportation hub with a port and airport, and a free-market economy with the same approach that Trump applies in his own country. There is no plan B, he declared, displaying the slides of the master plan. The presentation, overshadowed by all the other issues occupying this year's World Forum,"
"paints a picture of the future of a Gaza Strip where life has barely changed for its more than two million inhabitants since the signing of the ceasefire last October: the Israeli army conducts daily strikes and has killed 16 Palestinians in the last 48 hours, three of them journalists. Rescue services also announced on Thursday the death from hypothermia of a three-month-old baby, while Israeli military authorities are preventing the entry of the agreed-upon amounts of aid."
Jared Kushner presented an ambitious redevelopment plan to transform Gaza into a Dubai- or Singapore-like free-market hub with tourist skyscrapers, a waterfront, port, airport, and transportation hub. The plan includes building over 100,000 residential units beginning in Rafah and culminating in Gaza City. The U.S. and Israel insist on the demilitarization of Hamas as a prerequisite for implementation. The proposal was presented amid ongoing violence: Israeli strikes continue, recent killings include journalists, and civilians face dire conditions including a hypothermia death of a three-month-old and restricted aid entry. The plan leaves no alternative course if prerequisites are unmet.
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