The United Arab Emirates plans to fund “Gaza’s first planned community” on the ruined outskirts of Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city. Palestinian residents there will have access to basic services like education, healthcare and running water, as long as they submit to biometric data collection and security vetting, according to planning documents and people familiar with the latest round of talks at the US-led Civil Military Coordination Center in Israel.

Within the first Rafah community, billed as a “case study”, planners envision several efforts to prevent the influence of Hamas, including the introduction of electronic shekel wallets “to mitigate the diversion of goods and funds to the Hamas financial channels”, and a school curriculum that will “not be Hamas-based”, but supplied by the UAE. The Board of Peace plans promise 100,000 permanent housing units, 200 education centers and 75 medical facilities in the new city.

Should Palestinians voluntarily subject themselves to the surveillance and biometric measures proposed for “Gaza’s first planned community”, Levy and others suggested that Israel would be happy to see this first “case study” succeed.

“As far as Israel is concerned, if Gaza ends up with four or so model Palestinian communities of say 25,000 each, all of them vetted, and everything else is a hellscape where you’re further encouraging the ethnic cleansing, or the physical removal of Palestinians from there, that’s a desirable outcome.”

United Arab Emirates plans to bankroll first 'planned community' in south Gaza

8 minutes ago, bannork said:

The United Arab Emirates plans to fund “Gaza’s first planned community” on the ruined outskirts of Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city.

Sounds like the UAE are trying to implement a three state solution, not a two state solution. 🙂

Sounds like a good idea for peace. Of course the Jew haters will oppose it simply because it brings peace.

21 hours ago, bannork said:

As far as Israel is concerned, if Gaza ends up with four or so model Palestinian communities of say 25,000 each

What about the remaining 1.6M displaced persons?

1 hour ago, scottiejohn said:

What about the remaining 1.6M displaced persons?

Israel hopes their lives are so unbearable they'll go to Somaliland.