CAMPAIGNERS 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.

A Channel 4 analysis of customs data found that Israel imported nearly £1 million worth of munitions from Britain in the first nine months of this year alone. 

The death toll from Israel’s bloodshed in Gaza has climbed to more than 70,000. 

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. 

“One thing is clear: Israel must pay for the work, subsidised by the USA, just as the USA subsidised the destruction.”

The conference was co-hosted with Egypt and the Palestinian Authority, which administers parts of the West Bank.

But under Donald Trump’s so-called peace plan, the Palestinian Authority would only assume control of Gaza after a transitional period during which the US president would lead a supposed “Board of Peace” with war criminal Tony Blair.

The US has provided at least $21.7 billion (£16.1bn) in military aid to Israel since October 7 2023, research at Brown University found.

An assessment by the UN estimated that the reconstruction of Gaza and the occupied West Bank will require an estimated $53.2bn (£39.6bn)