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Kushner says this new Gaza will be a flourishing economic zone that creates jobs and prosperity for people there, free of Hamas and heavy weapons.
Kushner's plan envisions Gaza with trains and airport, advanced manufacturing zones, parks and a coastline for tourists, with high-rise towers that resemble Dubai.
It also includes more than 100,000 homes, though the UN says six times that amount existed before the war.
Ghada Doher, a mother of four, says the plan looks nice at first glance.
That all our rights and our homes are gone.
She says all we want is aid and Israel to open the border.
Aya Batrawi, NPR News Dubai, with Anas Baba in Gaza City.
The Trump Organization this week launched a golf course, hotel, and residential community on the outskirts of the Saudi capital, Riyadh.
It will be built within a sprawling new development owned by Saudi Arabia's Sovereign Wealth Fund, which is run by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Sadman.
The company also announced a new Trump Plaza in Jeddah, the second to be built in the Saudi coastal city.
The Saudi company developing these projects, Dar Global, says the new projects are worth $10 billion.
The Trump organization also has multi-billion dollar real estate projects under development with Dar Global in Qatar, Oman, and the UAE.
The projects reflect a rapid expansion of the family-run business and other financial dealings in the Gulf following President Trump's first term in office.
Aya Batraoui, NPR News, Dubai.
The Palestinian Journalist Syndicate report says the families of journalists in Gaza were systematically targeted during two years of war, with approximately 706 family members killed.
They are among the more than 70,000 Palestinians Gaza's health ministry says were killed in Israeli attacks in the war.
The report noted that the homes of some journalists were bombed, killing their spouses, children and entire families.
When asked by NPR, the Israeli military said it rejects allegations that it deliberately targets journalists or their family members.