Egypt Says Will Propose Reconstruction Plan for Gaza at Arab League Summit
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said his country will present the reconstruction plan for Gaza at an upcoming meeting of the Arab League to be held in Cairo.
Abdelatty in a presser on Sunday stressed that the reconstruction plan will not be purely Egyptian or Arab but will seek international support to ensure its successful implementation.
“We will hold intensive talks with major donor countries once the plan is adopted at the upcoming Arab Summit,” Abdelatty was quoted as saying.
Abdelatty said that following the emergency Arab Summit on March 4, there will be an urgent ministerial meeting for the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), where foreign ministers will push for the summit’s outcomes to be presented globally.
“We will ensure that the results of the Arab summit are presented to the world in the best possible way,” Abdelatty added.
Israeli minister of military affairs Israel Katz has ordered the regime’s military to prepare a plan that would force the “voluntary departure” of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.
US President Donald Trump has proposed displacing Palestinians from the besieged Gaza Strip to neighboring countries. He unveiled the scheme during a White House news conference in early February with the visiting Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
Egypt and Jordan have rejected Trump’s proposal that they should take in Palestinians from Gaza.
Trump’s plan has already sparked international condemnation. It has faced resounding rejection among Palestinians, West Asian leaders, and governments around the world.
Palestinians have denounced the scheme as a “declaration of war.”
Arab states who were swift to reject Trump’s plan for the US to take control of Gaza and resettle Palestinians are scrambling to agree on a diplomatic offensive to counter the idea.
