EU Launches $1bn Gaza Recovery Fund — Far Short of $71bn Needed

The European Commission has launched a billion-dollar 'Team Gaza Initiative' with over a dozen nations and financial institutions to fund early reconstruction of Gaza's shattered infrastructure, even as Israel's military campaign continues to kill Palestinians despite an October ceasefire agreement. The scale of international effort to rebuild Gaza — even while the conflict persists — mirrors biblical patterns of nations converging on the land of Israel in the last days, with political and economic powers positioning themselves over the fate of the Palestinian territories. Zechariah 12:3 warns that Jerusalem and its surrounding region will become 'a burdensome stone for all nations' in the end times, and the global scramble over Gaza's future reflects precisely this gathering of world powers around Israel's borders.