Reconstruction of Gaza - realistic?

So why did Israel withdraw from Gaza in 2005? Give up land as part of the Oslo Accords or Sinai in 1979? If Israel had wanted to they could have taken more land instead of withdrawing as part of peace deals on several occasions.

These claims just don't stand up to scrutiny.

Ethnic cleansing is still being carried out with impunity - there are no Hamas tunnels in the West Bank so what is the excuse there?

Gaza was razed to the ground to erase Gazans. Colonial expansionist land grabbing in Palestine continues.

Any discussion of rebuilding in this context will be vultural.

Israel and America but they won’t because no one starts a genocide with the intention to ‘re-build’ anything for the indigenous population of a land they’ve so desperately been after since 1947.

The country that obliterated it should pay. Obviously.

We’re not discussing vultures but the very real problem of who is going to rebuild Gaza - someone will have to.

Don’t you want other countries to help with the reconstruction of Gaza? I agree that Trumps “Gaza Riviera” was horrible but there are other countries that have their own proposals like the Egyptian plan.

Too true. Horrible that we are discussing which vultures might be plotting their descent. Let’s not continue this pretence that any of this will be to benefit Gazans. We only have to look at what settlers are doing in the West Bank to understand that ethnic cleansing is endemic.

That’s your personal opinion @Superfoodie123 rather than a fact. Just because a far right finance minister says something, that doesn’t make it true. Netanyahu agreed to the peace plan which includes the eventual withdrawal of IDF troops & for Gaza to be run by a Palestinian authority with an international peacekeeping force.

Some Gazans may choose to relocate while the rebuilding takes place but that will be their choice not forced eviction. The terms of the peace plan make it clear that the plan is not for Gaza to be “rebuilt for Israel”. It will be rebuilt for Palestinian people to live there but there are huge problems doing so while Hamas are still refusing to hand over their weapons & surrender. Literally no country is going to pour huge amount of resources into rebuilding Gaza while there are still terrorists with guns running around. This is the big problem with entering the next phase but I’m sure we all on MN hope that a way can be found to move into phase two. Not for the benefit of Israel but for the people of Gaza.

Its not being rebuilt for gazans. Its been rebuilt for Israelis. Basic knowledge. This has been the plan all along. Most people knew that all along

• Gaza "would be totally destroyed" and its people should seek "relocation to begin a new life in other places". - Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich

Something else @Thedawnchorus

Gosh, what a vivid imagination you have.

15 to 20 years to clear the rubble at a cost of half a billion alone. Winters in nothing more than tents over homes they used to live in. No medical care as 90% of hospitals are destroyed. No schooling. Nothing but gruel to feed what's left of the children. A new born now wouldn't see a roof over their head until they were twenty. Israel has completed exactly what it wanted. A very well planned insidious ethnic cleansing. Encourage voluntary emigration. Probably one of the most sinister and evil expressions I've ever heard.

Absolutely.

I think a problem is that while some countries have expressed willingness to get involved in the rebuilding of Gaza, they all want something for it. In other words they seem to see it as an investment opportunity rather than something to do for humanitarian reasons. I'm not sure either if many countries would be willing to spend billions of dollars on a place where there could be more fighting in future.

Germany had to pay reparations due to starting WW1 so maybe Hamas should be made liable for starting this war. Though I think the richest Hamas leaders are living in luxury overseas now. Not sure they will be that interested in helping with the rebuilding of Gaza.

I do not want a penny of my money going there
Hamas have plenty of money
they can but rockets guns etc
the leaders live in luxury flats in the USE
The people of Gaza need to rebel against Hamas

Iran & Russia could have their pockets turned out too.
China seem interested in belts and roads, have been courting middle eastern interests, and are too big to care about international scrutiny. I wonder what role they could play.

If you actually believe Israel went to all that effort to flatten the place only to have it rebuilt you are dreaming. Talk of reconstruction and Gazans being allowed to stay is nothing but smoke and mirrors. The plan has not changed and Israel knows all it has to do now is wait.

I think as individuals refusing to buy Israeli goods and services where you can and spending your money on Palestinian goods and services when they become available will help as trade always does. Things will get better.