Construction of the developments would take two or three years, Kushner said.

The Israeli military said one strike came after it spotted and struck several people who were operating a drone in central Gaza that posed a threat to its troops.

Israel has said that it will reopen the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt within days for travelers on foot, a move that would allow Palestinians who fled the enclave during the two-year war to return home for the first time.

Even before this latest war in Gaza, NPR’s Jerusalem-based Correspondent Daniel Estrin and Gaza reporter Anas Baba had spent years working together in challenging circumstances. Once war broke out, they had to adapt to a situation that made reporting together even more difficult.

The Rafah crossing is Gaza's lifeline to the world and could open soon - Palestinians are eagerly awaiting the reopening of the Rafah border crossing, Gaza’s lifeline to the outside world

U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner were in Israel on Saturday to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, mainly

"American Doctor" starts strongly with an emotional argument between filmmaker and protagonist. The latter pushes for showing the bodies of dead Palestinian children on screen, to convey the enormity of the carnage in the war on Gaza.

After its war in Gaza, Israel cut off much of its economic ties with the Palestinian territory of the West Bank. More than two years on, the devastation has cascaded down to every level of the Palestinian economy.