Jared Kushner was involved in drafting US President Donald Trump's plan for the US to "take over" Gaza, which involves the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian citizens, the online news site Puck reported.

According to the site, which describes itself as a meeting place for “Wall Street and Silicon Valley” news, Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, helped prepare the president’s shocking remarks Tuesday night during his press conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Kushner, who has a long history of friendship with Netanyahu, served as an adviser to President Trump during his first term and was involved in negotiating the normalization agreements, deals that sought regional integration for Israel without resolving the issue of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.

Kushner, who has no official position in the current White House, said last year that Gaza's waterfront property could be "very valuable" and said Palestinians should be kept out of the area, at least temporarily.

“The waterfront real estate in Gaza could be very valuable if people focus on building livelihoods,” Kushner said. “It’s a bit of an unfortunate situation there, but I think from Israel’s perspective, I would do my best to get people out and then clean up the place… But I don’t think Israel has said they don’t want people to come back there after that.”

It is noteworthy that although Gaza City is one of the oldest cities in the world, the Gaza Strip did not exist until the mid-twentieth century. It was created as a direct result of the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of those areas of British Mandate Palestine that became the State of Israel.

The Nakba began in late 1947 at the hands of Zionist terrorist militias, and continued at the hands of the Israeli occupation army until the early 1950s. The Nakba saw the forcible expulsion of some 200,000 Palestinians, many of them from the larger Gaza Strip, into a rectangular strip in the southwestern corner of Palestine, comprising only one percent of the territory of the former British Mandate.

Once home to 80,000 Palestinians, Gaza has more than tripled in size, almost overnight. The sudden shift has produced a humanitarian crisis rivaled only by the current one, and is also a direct result of Israeli policy.

President Trump has not ruled out sending US troops to Gaza if "necessary."