Imagine Gaza rebuilt with Donald Trump’s help. But the USA doesn’t need to take it over.
Nearly two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are leaving their refugee camps and crowded shelters to finally return home after the breakthrough cease-fire deal, only to find that their homes and neighborhoods are nothing but ash and rubble after 15 months of brutal warfare.
The United Nations estimates that 69% of all buildings in Gaza have been damaged or destroyed, including more than 245,000 homes — with the World Bank estimating that the first four months alone caused $18.5 billion in damages.
Researchers say the scale of destruction can only be compared to cities that were leveled during the Second World War.
President Trump is now calling for the US to take “ownership” of the Palestinian enclave so that it can be rebuilt more quickly and developed into a gleaming region that will have “an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs.” READ MORE