Report finds former UK PM Blair involved in ‘Gaza Riviera' scheme
Staff at the Tony Blair Institute participated in a project to redevelop Gaza into the Donald Trump-envisioned 'riviera of the Middle East', a report has found. The plan includes expelling Palestinians, as Soraya Lennie explains.
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