The Arab nations, led by Egypt, who firmly rejected President Trump’s proposal for the United States to “take over” from the Gaza Strip and move its more than 2 million Palestinian residents so that the enclave can be transformed into luxury real estate development has offered An alternative plan. The leaders of the Arab League of 22 nations attended a summit in Cairo on Tuesday and unanimously adopted the Egyptian proposal, which does not provide any of the Gaza residents forced to leave during reconstruction.
The Trump administration, as well as its relatives in Israel, quickly rejected the plan, the White House reiterating the assertion of the president that the destruction made in Gaza during the War of Israel with 15 months with Hamas rendered the enclave uninhabitable.
The Palestinians who spoke with CBS News in Gaza all vehemently rejected any attempt to force them from the territory, and the head of the United Nations and others have suggested that making them leave equivalent to Ethnic cleaning.
Hamas supported the Arab plan, but has always refused to disarm itself within the framework of any cease-fire agreement, which Israel considers essential.
Israel and the United States reject the Arab Gaza Plan
Israel quickly rejected the Egyptian manufacturing plan, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tel Aviv saying in a declaration That the proposal, “continues to rely on the Palestinian Authority and UNRWA – both have shown corruption, support for terrorism and the failure of the problem of the problem”.
Speaking after the summit on Tuesday, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt, Badr Abdeatty, rejected this position, telling journalists that “everything talks about rejecting an UNRWA or rejection of the AP is simply nonsense and cannot be accepted, because this represents international legitimacy, and it should be accepted”. He accused Israel of having violated international laws and United Nations resolutions and said international law should be implemented.
The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs has accused neighboring Arab nations of having “used Palestinians as pawns against Israel” since the country’s creation, and its declaration has reiterated the support of the Netanyahu administration for “the idea of President Trump”.
The ministry said that the American president’s plan was “an opportunity for the Gazans to have the free choice according to their free will”, in spite of Mr. Trump to say They would not be allowed to return to Gaza.
The spokesperson for the National Council for American Security, Brian Hughes, said in a statement, for his part, that the Arab proposal “does not respond to reality that Gaza is currently uninhabitable and that residents cannot live humanly in a territory covered with debris and unploded ammunition”.
“President Trump respects his vision of rebuilding Gaza Libre du Hamas,” said Hughes, adding: “We are looking forward to talks to bring peace and prosperity to the region.”
In his speech, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sissi said that he was thinking that the time had come to find a path to “a just and lasting solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian crisis old decades, adding: “I firmly believe that US President Trump has the ability to achieve this objective, aligning our region.
Next week, at another summit in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and its Arab League partners will ask for support from other countries with Islamic predominance for their plan. A senior European Union official was at the top in Cairo on Tuesday, but there has been no statement of the block to date offering his clear support to the Arab proposal.
What is in the Arab proposal to rebuild Gaza?
The Egyptian plan, as explained by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdelatty after Tuesday’s summit, would involve three phases. The first would focus on urgent rescue operations and initial recovery, including the construction of 200,000 temporary dwellings in Gaza.
This first phase would take between six months and a year and would cost $ 3 billion.
The second step would involve the construction of 200,000 permanent dwellings and efforts to restore vital infrastructure. This phase is planned to take about two years, with a price of $ 20 billion.
The final phase would add 200,000 other permanent housing units and more service facilities, including the reconstruction of ports and an airport in the two years that have followed, requiring around 30 billion dollars.
On the key question of who or what would supervise operations and administer Gaza, which was led by the United States and the terrorist group designated by the United States for almost two decades, the Egyptian plan calls an administrative committee made up of independent Palestinian technocrats to manage the territory for six months, before the authority of the Palestinians returned Gaza.
The AP currently administers parts of the West Bank occupied by Israeli, the other much larger Palestinian territory. He is largely unpopular among the Palestinians and the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently excluded Either Hamas or PA taking control in Gaza.
Abdelatty also said that Egypt would form Palestinian security personnel in Egypt to return and help maintain security throughout the Gaza Strip, but he did not say what phase of the proposed plan that would start during.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs has acknowledged that before all this could occur – even if the plan or a version of it is supported by Israel, which maintains firm control over goods and people entering and leaving Gaza and is Currently blocking the entire help entry -First there must be a permanent ceasefire.
A call to international support – and a lot of money
Speaking to the summit, El -Sissi called on other nations to support the plan of around $ 53 billion – including financially – and to participate in a reconstruction conference, Egypt is organizing next month.
“Unit us to make the channeling of support for this fund a noble objective and a moral imperative,” said El-Sissi, “guaranteeing each Palestinian child and each Palestinian family the right to live in a safe and civilized environment, equal to those of all peoples.”
In a final statement published by the participants at the Summit, the leaders called on the United Nations Security Council to send international peacetakes “to contribute to the security of the Palestinian and Israeli peoples in the West Bank and in Gaza Strip, as part of the improvement of the political horizon for the creation of the Palestinian State.”
The leaders also confirmed “the vital and irreplaceable role of the United Nations Rescue and Work Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in the realization of its mandate granted by the United Nations resolution”.
The Israeli government has long accused UNRWA of being linked to Hamas And, there are barely weeks, he has prohibited the United Nations aid agency from operating on its territory.
