Many of US president’s allies support settler projects, and plans to effectively colonise Gaza are an expansion on ideas from first term

Planning to “clean out” Palestinians as a real estate money-making scheme is an idea that has long united the Israeli settler movement and some of Donald Trump’s circle of US property developers.

For decades, state-backed settlers have used concrete, steel and brick to build on occupied land in Palestine, in a successful effort to use town-building as a means to claim territory and permanently force Palestinians from their homeland.