Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced Wednesday that he is working with the United States to draw up plans for Gaza ’s future that would turn the territory into a “real estate bonanza.”

Smotrich’s revelations echo hopes for Gaza expressed by President Donald Trump earlier this year, before the White House appeared to surrender the plan for postwar renewal amid backlash from Middle Eastern allies. However, the Israeli minister’s comments suggest that the plan was never entirely called off.

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“Listen to me carefully, there’s a business plan set by the most professional people there is, and is on President Trump’s table, and how this thing turns into a real estate bonanza,” Smotrich

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