Israel’s intelligence minister has released a video illustrating his plan for an artificial island off the coast of Gaza, which he says would help alleviate humanitarian suffering in the isolated enclave.

The plan calls for the island to be built in the Mediterranean three miles off the coast of Gaza and connected to the strip by a long bridge.

The island, which would itself be 2.5 miles long, would have a port where passengers and cargo could be dropped off and then transported to Gaza itself. It could potentially one day even have an airport.

Gaza has neither a shipping port nor an airport of its own and its two million residents are almost entirely dependent supplies coming through the land border with Israel.