What Jared Kushner's 'New Gaza' plan includes, and what it leaves out
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Loft-style apartments with floor-to-ceiling windows, an off-shore oil and gas rig, advanced industrial zones and park-lined neighborhoods. This is "New Gaza," a vision laid out by the Trump administration for the destroyed Palestinian territory after two years of war.
"We've already started removing the rubble and doing some of the demolition," Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law, said while presenting the plan recently in Davos, Switzerland.
"And then 'New Gaza.' It could be a hope, it could be a destination, have a lot of industry and really be a place that the people there can thrive, have great employment," he said.
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The Gaza Strip is only 25 miles long and about 4 to 7 miles wide. It was home to around 2.2 million people before the war, all living in densely packed cities and refugee camps. Now, nearly everyone lives in makeshift tents or bombed-out homes that are at risk of collapse. The World Bank estimated in 2024 the cost of damage to critical infrastructure alone was more than $18 billion.
The plan laid out by Kushner rests on Trump's ceasefire deal
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