As Gaza starves, Israel's far right sees a dream coming true [View all]

Members of Israel’s government embrace the Trump-inspired vision of a Gaza of gleaming towers, ritzy tourism and pristine neighborhoods, but without Palestinians.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/25/worldview-gaza-hunger-crisis-israel/

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It’s a split-screen moment. On one side, you have the crushing daily reality of the Gaza Strip. The scale of mass starvation taking place in the besieged territory is so vast that medics and humanitarian staff tasked with helping provide for the hungry are themselves barely managing to stay on their feet. Aid groups are either bereft or running out of supplies amid more than four months of blockade. One in three people in Gaza are going multiple days without eating, according to the United Nations.

Each day brings new images of skeletal children and desperate families seeking sustenance amid Gaza’s ruins. Health officials report a surge in deaths from malnutrition as daily bombardments by Israeli forces continue to kill Palestinians. Israeli troops have opened fire repeatedly in the vicinity of the sites doling out the little food available in the territory, according to humanitarian experts, witnesses and visual evidence. On the other side, you have the surreal vision conjured by Israeli Science and Technology Minister Gila Gamliel, who uploaded an AI-generated video this week to social media showing a vision of what a postwar Gaza Strip could look like.



It echoed an AI video posted by President Donald Trump to Truth Social in February, although that one featured an Elon Musk likeness eating hummus out of a bread bowl, golden Trump statues and statuettes, and a “Trump Gaza” song. The minute-long clip shared by Gamliel celebrated Trump’s proposal to help redevelop the war-ravaged territory into an area of gleaming high-rises, ritzy tourism and pristine new residential neighborhoods. Luxury yachts float by the Strip’s Mediterranean beaches; Jewish residents grin over platters of hummus. The catch? Most or all of Gaza’s actual population is nowhere to be seen.



In her post, Gamliel pointed to the necessity of the “voluntary emigration” of Gaza’s Palestinian population. She’s not alone among cabinet ministers in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing government in calling for this outcome. Since the immediate aftermath of Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel, numerous Israeli politicians have not only sought the full defeat of Hamas but cast the entirety of Gaza’s more than 2 million inhabitants as an enemy population that needs to be removed.

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