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Published date: 23 January 2026 18:12 GMT
A harrowing cartoon by Peter de Wit depicts parents sunbathing on an idyllic beach in Gaza, while their toddler blissfully digs up skulls in the sand.
De Wit’s “Gaza Beach 2030” won the award for best political cartoon in the Netherlands last year.
Now, a plan unveiled by US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law might just bring such a dystopian image to reality.
Jared Kushner, who serves as a US special envoy, announced plans for a “New Gaza” - complete with shiny skyscrapers, coastal tourist attractions and entire districts dedicated to business and commerce.
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Kushner told global leaders that the Palestinian enclave would be run under “free market economy principles”.
He said these would seek to mirror the “same mindset and same approach” as Trump’s America.
Can’t they do this like anywhere? Why does it specifically have to be Gaza
Because everyone else will expect money for the land. But it’s easy to steal from dead people.
How else will they have such cheap land and workforce that’s so willing? Gaza and the expansion of Israel is just another Western colonial project, one that we’re witnessing IRL, and colonies make money through plunder and slavery. Nothing new, honestly.
Their goal is to commit genocide of Palestinians. It’s either Gaza, the West Bank or Palestinians with Israeli passports, unless they start hunting down members of the Palestinian diaspora.
Presumably somewhere that isn’t towards the front of the line to wrecked by climate change.