President Donald Trump‘s son-in-law Jared Kushner showed off a Gaza master plan Thursday that includes ‘coastal tourism’ corridors with high rises as he revealed work is already underway on rebuilding the war-torn area.
Kushner gave a PowerPoint presentation amid the president’s Board of Peace ceremony at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Ivanka Trump‘s husband and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff have been leading negotiations for the US to end the Gaza war.
In his presentation, Kushner revealed that 100,000 permanent housing units will be built in Gaza and 500,000 jobs created in construction, agriculture, manufacturing, services and the digital economy industries.
He said they will start with Rafah, adding that demolition and removal of rubble is already underway.
Speaking alongside a presentation showing generated images of the Gaza coastline with skyscrapers and yachts, Kushner said: ‘We think this can be done in two, three years.’
Kushner said the plan will be conducted in phases, including 100% employment and ‘opportunity for everyone’.
Kushner explained that, initially, they planned to create a ‘free zone’ and a ‘Hamas zone’ to divide up Gaza.
Kushner said the plan will be conducted in phases
He said they will start with Rafah, adding that demolition and removal of rubble is already underway
Kushner spoke alongside a presentation showing generated images of the Gaza coastline with skyscrapers and yachts
‘And then we said, you know what? Let’s just plan for catastrophic success,’ he told the crowd.
‘Hamas signed a deal to demilitarize. That is what we’re going to enforce.’
He revealed that Hamas’s ‘heavy weapons’ will be decommissioned immediately, while small arms will be decommissioned by sector by the new Palestinian police, which could include members of Hamas after ‘rigorous vetting.’
Kushner added that reconstruction will only begin in sectors with full disarmament, however also said that members of Hamas will be ‘rewarded with amnesty and reintegration, or safe passage’.
Trump concluded the event by noting how he’s a ‘real estate person at heart.’
‘And it’s all about location,’ he said of Gaza. ‘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.’
‘It’ll be so, so great. People that are living so poorly are going to be living so well. But it all began with the location.’
Kushner’s master plan is not unlike Trump’s initial pitch of making the Palestinian territory the ‘Riviera of the Middle East.’
Trump said people in Gaza living ‘so poorly’ will be ‘living so well’
Kushner added that reconstruction will only begin in sectors with full disarmament
Kushner’s master plan is not unlike Trump’s initial pitch of making the Palestinian territory the ‘Riviera of the Middle East’
In February of last year, Trump stated: ‘The US will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it too.’
He then posted a 35-second video to his Truth Social account that began with the question: ‘Gaza 2025: What’s Next?’
The AI-generated video – in a series of bold, gaudy images – showed a Trump hotel, a giant golden statue of Trump, and a child holding a Trump balloon among resplendent beach-front resort complexes.
Elon Musk was seen tossing around cash to visitors and children, while Trump danced with a belly dancer and drank cocktails with Netanyahu.
The White House told the Daily Mail in a statement: ‘President Trump is a visionary, and his plan to have the United States involved in Gaza’s rebuilding will allow for Palestinians to resettle in new, beautiful communities while improving conditions in the region for generations to come.’
During his speech in Davos, Trump claimed the war in Gaza is ‘coming to an end’ and now consisted of ‘little fires’.
He said that there was a commitment to ensure Gaza was demilitarised and ‘beautifully rebuilt’.
Trump signed the charter of his ‘Board of Peace,’ with other founding members in Davos on Thursday.
According to the charter, the Board of Peace will be ‘an international organization that seeks to promote stability, restore dependable and lawful governance, and secure enduring peace in areas affected or threatened by conflict’.
Originally intended to help end the devastating Gaza war, the President now sees the board as having a wider role that Europe and some others fear will rival or undermine the United Nations.
