In this drone photo, buildings destroyed during two years of Israeli army bombardments are seen in Gaza City, October 15, 2025CAMPAIGNERS voiced outrage today after the British government hosted a conference to “drive forward private finance efforts for Gaza’s reconstruction.”
The three-day summit began on Monday at London’s Wilton Park and brought together international investors.
Speaking at the opening, Middle East minister Hamish Falconer said that Gaza has “real economic potential” which must be “unlocked.”
He underlined the need to think “creatively to bring in private capital” and touted Britain as being “well placed to help.”
The minister then posted a photo on X of suits sat around the table declaring it time to “seize this moment” and that the conference would “drive forward private finance efforts for Gaza’s reconstruction.”
Campaigners slammed the meeting as “immoral” given Britain’s complicity in enabling Israel’s war crimes.
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A spokesperson from left group Momentum slammed the conference as an example of “blatant profiteering.”
“It is totally immoral to use Israel’s genocide of the people of Gaza, which the government is complicit in, to make money.
“Reconstruction efforts must be determined by the people of Gaza.”
Mike Cushman, membership secretary of Jewish Voice for Liberation (JVL), said: “Gaza is a humanitarian and environmental disaster, not a profit opportunity for get-rich-quick private finance.
“PFI has been neither efficient nor effective in Britain, leaving a vast overhang of debt to be picked up by taxpayers for substandard services; only an inhumane government immersed in a colonialist mentality would try to inflict it on Gaza.
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