Cairo – Optimism in the Arab world that President Trump could end the war in the Gaza Strip and, with it, stability in the Tumultueu Middle East. But this hope has faded quickly since Mr. Trump suggested a plan To force the entire population of Gaza and “take control” of the Palestinian territory decimated to develop it as a holiday destination.
Mr. Trump said The approximately 2.3 million Palestinians should be transferred to Egypt and Jordan, apparently to make room for investors to move and “clean everything”.
The president’s suggestion sent a shock of confusion and anger that swept the Arab nations that surround Israel and beyond.
“In Egypt, we have warned since the start of the crisis that what was happening was an attempt to make the Gaza band uninhabitable, paving the way displacement of Palestinians», Egyptian president Abdel Fattah El-Sissi said Several days after Mr. Trump suggested his plan for the first time. “I say it unequivocally: the displacement of the Palestinian people of their place is an injustice. We cannot tolerate or be part of the unfair displacement of the Palestinians. »»
Meeting earlier this month in Washington with Mr. Trump, The king of Jordan Abdullah IIAsked questions about the president’s proposal, said Egypt worked alternatively with other Arab countries.
“We will be in Saudi Arabia to discuss how we can work with the president and the United States,” Abdullah told journalists. “Let’s wait for the Egyptians to come and present it to the (American) president, and not be ahead of it.”
Friday, a meeting to discuss this alternative proposal for the future of Gaza will take place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. While Mr. Trump continued to insist that Egypt and Jordan will renovate the Palestinians of Gaza, his administration also said that it was open to other suggestions.
“Right now, the only one who got up and said,” I’m ready to help do so, “Donald Trump,” said Secretary of State Marco Rubio said said In an interview last week. “All these other leaders, they will have to intensify. If they have a better idea, then it’s time.
An Egyptian plan for Gaza takes shape
“Egypt is developing a complete and progressive plan that seeks to rehabilitate Gaza,” the spokesman for the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, Tamim Khallaf said on Wednesday. “The plan will extend over several years which would cause sequential phases of elimination of rubble and reconstruction.”
“It will take place so as to ensure that the Palestinians of Gaza remain in their country of origin,” said Khallaf, adding that the plan “will be operational both realistic and achievable”.
Financing for the Herculean task to rebuild Gaza will be a vital component of any plan for after the war. In January, the UN and the World Bank estimated that 72% of housing in the territory, 84% of its health establishments and 92% of its main roads had been damaged or completely destroyed, and the bombardment continued during a other month from this point.
Khallaf told CBS News that Egypt was “in talks with the United Nations, through the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Gaza, to jointly organize an international conference in Egypt for recovery and early reconstruction Gaza, who will be essential to provide emergency emergency activities and ensure the funds necessary to see the plan to materialize and restore life to Gaza. »»
The plan discussed in Riyadh should be officially approved at an Arab summit Scheduled for March 4 in Cairo. The plan should also arouse support. Many American allies in Europe have firmly rejected Mr. Trump’s call to move the Gaza population, but there was no other alternative offer.
Speaking on Wednesday next to the Spanish Prime Minister after their meeting in Madrid, El-Sissi said The leaders had “underlined the importance of support and adoption by the international community of the reconstruction plan for the Gaza Strip, which does not imply the forced displacement of the Palestinian people – again, without the displacement of the people Palestinian – of their land, they are thus charging cherish, and their ancestral homeland, they will never give up, which guarantees the immediate initiation of rescue and early recovery operations. »»
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Egypt fought for an post-war solution in Gaza which would be acceptable to all parties, because the conflict was launched by the terrorist attack on October 7 of Hamas against Israel.
We do not know how much support for a unified Arab position, even with broader international support, could collect from Mr. Trump or his close ally, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Without their support, it is difficult to consider any proposal to materialize.
“The generational healing between the Palestinians and the Israelis is possible but can only be sweat when the Palestinians live in their own independent state,” Khallaf told CBS News. “We are impatient to work with the American administration to reach the long -awaited peace in the region.”