Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi stated that the plan will ensure that the 2.4 million inhabitants of Gaza remain in their landin response to the US President’s plan of expelling them to Egypt and Jordan and transforming the territory “Middle East Riviera”.
Arab leaders adopted a plan on Tuesday for the reconstruction of and the return of Palestinian authority, presented as an alternative to Donald Trump’s plan to place the territory under American control.
The leaders of the Arab League countries warned against attempts “Odiosas” To move the population of Gaza, and appealed to the Union of Palestinians under the aegis of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), effectively excluding the Islamite Movement, which is not a member of that entity.
They also agreed to create a fund to finance the reconstruction of Gazadestroyed for 15 months of war between Israel and Hamas, and appealed to an international contribution to accelerate the process.
According to the plan, the Gaza Strip will be administered during a transitional period by a Palestinian technocrat committee, before the Palestinian authority resume control of the territory.
In the summit, Egypt presented a $ 53 billion plan (50 billion euros) in five years, an estimate equivalent to that of to rebuild the Gaza Strip.
For your side, the Hamas “Gredited” The Arabian plan and the creation of a committee to manage the territory after the war.
The first phase of the reconstruction, lasting six months, will be enshrined in the removal of the rubble, the demy and the provisional accommodation of more than 1.5 million people.
Two phases of reconstruction will be followed, the first of which will cover essential infrastructures and permanent accommodation and the second ones that include a commercial port and an airport.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi stated that the plan will ensure that the 2.4 million inhabitants of Gaza remain in their landin response to the US President’s plan of expelling them to Egypt and Jordan and transforming the territory “Middle East Riviera”.
However, Sissi did not directly criticize the which caused an international protest in early February, and said the US President was “capable of achieving peace” in the region.
“Any hateful attempt to move the Palestinian people or (…) attach part of the occupied Palestinian territories would plunge the region in a new phase of conflict (…) that represents a clear threat to (…) peace” In the Middle East, says the final statement released by the summit.
O Cairo will seek the support of Muslim countries for their plan in an emergency summit of on Friday, in Jeddah, in Saudi Arabia, so that the project “becomes an Arab and Islamic plan”according to Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty.
The summit was held in a context of impasse on the continuation of the ceasefire in force since January 19, between Israel, which requires the “Total Demilitarization” of Gaza, and Hamas, which insists on remaining in the territory.
The Islamite movement seized power in the territory in 2007, after dismissing the 89 -year -old Palestinian authority, led by Mahmoud Abbas, who said in this summit being prepared to organize presidential and legislative elections in the Palestinian territories “Next year”, “as long as the conditions are gathered.”
UN Secretary-General António Guterres, who was also in Cairo, said that A it “support firmly” the Arabic plan.
The Israeli government continues to repeat that the right to resume combat at any time to annihilate Hamas if it does not depuse the weapons, and lamented that the extraordinary summit of Arab League leaders, in which the African Union (AU) and the European Union (EU) also participated in the Egyptian plan for Gaza’s reconstruction without evaluating Donald Trump’s idea.
The first phase of the 42 -day truce between Israel and Hamas , after allowing the return of 33 hostages detained in Gaza in exchange for Israel’s release of about 1,800 Palestinian detainees.
Both parties are now in disagreement with the next phase of the process, whose first consequence is the blockade imposed by Israel on Sunday at the entrance to humanitarian aid in the besieged Gaza Strip.
On the other hand, the Islamists again insisted on “Need to force” Israel to apply the second phase of the ceasefire agreement, which should have entered into force on Sunday, and “Reject any project aimed at the Palestinian travel.”
Israel wants the first phase of the truce to be prolonged until mid-April, while Hamas insists on the application of the second phase, which predicts a permanent ceasefire and the liberation of all hostages.
“President Trump’s idea is an opportunity for the inhabitants of Gaza to have freedom of choice based on free will – that’s what should have been pressured,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a message at X.
Hamas’s attack in southern Israel made 1,218 Israelite dead, mostly civilians, according to a count of based on official data and including hostages that died or were killed in captivity.
The Israeli Army response caused at least 48,405 killed in Gaza, most of civilians, according to Hamas Ministry of Health data, considered reliable by the UN.
