Gaza's once-bustling coastal restaurants and hotels scene now stands in ruins after 15 months of war. But the operators remain determined to rebuild Gaza on their own despite a proposal by the United States to take over the job as a long-term solution to the Gaza conflict.
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00:00Restaurants and hotels along the coast of Gaza Strip are in ruins after 15 months of
00:11war.
00:13The operators and many residents there said they would rather stay put and rebuild their
00:18businesses and homes themselves, despite the U.S.'s proposal to take over Gaza's reconstruction.
00:25The Salam Restaurant is one of the landmarks, it's a masterpiece, and it's a very luxurious
00:33restaurant.
00:34It's one of the best restaurants.
00:36So today, for example, they say they want to change the restaurants, they want to change
00:42Gaza, they want to make a new history for Gaza.
00:45We remain Arabs, and the history of the Arabs cannot be changed by the history of the foreigners.
00:50We have a history of hundreds of years, and we are one of the oldest families in the Gaza
01:00Strip.
01:01I think that the fate of this project is failure.
01:05Why?
01:06Because since the occupation of Palestine in 1948, this project was proposed by the
01:12occupation and the countries that supported the occupation in the issue of the displacement
01:16of the residents of the Gaza Strip.
01:18But it was a failure.
01:19It was a failure in our people's steadfastness, in our people's confrontation with these
01:24displacement decisions, which were a failure.
01:27Of course, the occupation also failed in the displacement of the residents of the Gaza
01:31Strip during this war, the war of extermination, which began on October 7.
01:34This Hamas personnel said Palestinians will not move out of Gaza until the last drop
01:39of their blood, and their resistance will continue.
01:43We will not move until the last drop of our blood.
01:47During a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Washington,
01:52D.C. on Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump proposed to nations in the Middle East that
01:58Palestinians be relocated from Gaza temporarily as the United States could help rebuild Gaza
02:05with the help of the international community as a long-term solution to the Israel-Hamas
02:09conflict.
02:10We will do a job with it, too.
02:12We will own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs.