Overview
- Kushner laid out a phased blueprint featuring a coastal tourism zone with up to 180 skyscrapers, a new port and airport, and 100,000 housing units in “New Rafah,” estimating initial buildouts could take two to three years.
- Organizers said debris removal has begun and promised early funding announcements at a forthcoming Washington conference, while detailing a target investment of at least $25 billion.
- Trump chaired a signing ceremony for the Board of Peace with about 20 countries present, as major European allies declined to join and Israel had no representative at the event.
- Reconstruction is conditioned on demilitarization: heavy weapons to be decommissioned immediately, small arms handled sector by sector, and possible amnesty or safe passage for Hamas members who lay down arms under oversight by the NCAG led by Ali Shaath and envoy Nickolay Mladenov.
- Egyptian and NCAG officials said the Rafah crossing would reopen next week, but Israel has not confirmed and has tied reopening to the return of the last hostage’s remains, while commitments for a proposed international stabilization force remain uncertain.