Rebuilding Gaza has always been the UN’s favourite part of Israel’s colonial, violent aftermath. The genocide Israel unleashed on Gaza after 7th October 2023 was no different at first in terms of responses. Paving the way for Israel’s impunity, the UN stood by as the world witnessed firsthand what genocide and ethnic cleansing look like, perpetrated by one of the world’s strongest military powers that also benefits from the US Qualitative Military Edge. Several UN member states became complicit in genocide as they aided Israel militarily and refused to cut diplomatic and economic ties.

Rebuilding Gaza was a concept discussed since the first months of the genocide, even as Israel gave no hint of stopping. In April 2025, the UN was already vague about the funds for rebuilding Gaza, although the concept fit right into the humanitarian paradigm. The worst case scenario envisioned by the UN was that it would take until 2092 for Gaza “to go back to its economic level of 2022.” The 2022 date is well beyond Operation Protective Edge in 2014, when rebuilding Gaza after Israel’s aggression was also the UN’s rhetorical saving grace, until it wasn’t anymore as the so-called mechanisms turned into surveillance methods aiding Israel’s colonial violence.

This time, however, US President Donald Trump was ahead of the international community, shaping the concept of rebuilding Gaza into real estate investment. In February 2025, Jared Kushner suggested Israel “move the people out and then clean it up” to pave the way for beachfront property. Genocide serving real estate investment, or........

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