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Topics: Donald Trump, Gaza, Palestine, Politics, US News, World News
Rhianna Benson
Topics: Donald Trump, Gaza, Palestine, Politics, US News, World News
United States 'peace-keepers' have this week unveiled plans for a controversial new architectural scheme they're describing as 'New Gaza'.
Representatives of Donald Trump's recently implemented 'Board of Peace' appeared at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Thursday (22 Jan), where they announced plans to rebuild the annihilated Palestinian territory from scratch.
"We're going to be very successful in Gaza," the 79-year-old President told attendees. "It's going to be a great thing to watch.
"I'm a real estate person at heart and it's all about location. And I said, 'Look at this location on the sea. Look at this beautiful piece of property. What it could be for so many people'."
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A slideshow presentation showed high-tech plans for hundreds of skyscrapers to be strewn along the coast of the Mediterranean, as well a cluster of housing estates scattered across Rafah.
Trump's team also included a map in their draw-up, which showed the various phases of development of a series of future residential, agricultural and industrial regions, which they say will house the area's 2.1 million.
Colour-keyed areas were labelled things like 'coastal tourism', 'industrial complex data centres' and 'parks, agriculture and sports facilities'.
Businessman and investor Jared Kushner - who just so happens to be Trump's son-in-law, husband of his eldest daughter, Ivanka - was also part of the mission's 'big reveal', commenting on the ceasefire the Republican supposedly put into place between Hamas and Israel back in October.
Last year, the 79-year-old promised he would bring about an end to the horrific events, which included Israel’s air and ground assaults, that killed at least 62,686 Palestinians so far, and displaced a further 2.2 million residents from the area.
Claiming his team will be responsible for clearing 60 million tonnes of rubble from Gaza after 90,000 tonnes of munitions were dropped, Kushner alleged: "In the beginning, we were toying with the idea of saying: 'Let's build a free zone, and then we have a Hamas zone.'
"And then we said, 'You know what, let's just plan for catastrophic success'. Hamas signed a deal to demilitarise, that is what we are going to enforce.
"People ask us what our plan B is. We do not have a plan B."
Unsurprisingly, the plans have been met with worldwide backlash, with onlookers accusing Trump and his team of attempting to profit from the total destruction of an area that has belonged the Palestinian people for centuries.
"Gaza and Rafah had all of these before you destroyed every single one of them," one X user hit out after the slides were shared online.
Another infuriated witness hit out: "'Genocide for property development' by the same people responsible for mass death are unveiling real estate blueprints on the graves of the displaced."
"The West are selling Gaza at Davos 2026," a third claimed. "On the bodies of #Palestine people, especially those children who were bombed and killed?"
A fourth went on: "Under no circumstances can we, or any civilised country, allow this to happen. Gaza is not a new playground for the US to extort money from. This land belongs to the Palestinians, we will not accept any attempt to erase them."