During a meeting at Davos to announce the charter of Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace,” his son-in-law (and special advisor) Jared Kushner unveiled a $30 billion plan for rebuilding Gaza, where there are “amazing investment opportunities,” he said. The plan would begin with rebuilding the southern city of Rafah, within as little as two to three years.
Kushner’s presentation, which followed a talk by Steve Witkoff, included AI-generated images of what a “New Gaza” could look like, some already seen in slideshows leaked months ago. Kushner said the plan assumes Hamas has agreed to demilitarize, adding that the U.S. would enforce that outcome. There is no plan for a “free zone” and a “Hamas zone” in his view: “We do not have a plan B,” he said, but only a “master plan” that would be implemented in stages.
He acknowledged the scale of Gaza’s destruction, including 90,000 tons of munitions dropped during the conflict and the destruction of much infrastructure into 60 million tons of rubble. Funding for the program is not clear, and questions of who would provide troops for peacekeeping are also unresolved. “Without security, nobody is going to make investments, no one is going to come and build there,” he said. “We need investments in order to start getting jobs.”
