The reconstruction plan for the Gaza Strip developed by Arab countries is also to be presented to the European Union and the USA. This was said by Egypt’s Foreign Minister Badr Abdel-Ati at the end of a summit in Cairo. His country wants to gain broad international support for the approximately 90-page plan, which is available to the German Press Agency and counter the controversial proposals of US President Donald Trump.
Over a period of around five years, the plan initially provides for the removal of ruins in Gaza and then the construction of temporary and permanent accommodations for the Palestinians living there. The costs are estimated at the equivalent of around 50 billion euros. The United Nations also mentioned this sum for the reconstruction of the large -scale coastal area. So far, promises for the financing of Arab or other donor countries or international institutions are not known.
Technocrat committee should control Gaza
The paper mentions a Palestinian body of technocrats, which is to take control of the Gaza Strip during a six -month transition phase. This should be done under the “patronage” of the Palestinian government before President Mahmud Abbas’s more moderate Palestinian Authority (PA) takes control.
Abbas’ Palestinian organization Fatah rejects a rule with the rivaling Islamists of Hamas in Gaza. Instead, Abbas strives to take control of control by the PA. Hamas apparently does not want to give up the power achieved by violence in 2007 and does not want to lay down the weapons. Israel strictly rejected a government participation of the terrorist organization, which triggered the Gaza War with the devastating October massacre in 2023-as well as taking control by the PA.
Hamas welcomes plans, criticism by Israel
The Hamas welcomed that the cups’ participants had opposed the expulsion of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. The Islamist organization also evaluated the plans for the reconstruction of the coastal strip.
A spokesman for the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on the other hand, criticized that at the summit in Cairo it was not talked about “the realities of the situation after October 7, 2023”, but about “outdated perspectives”. Hamas was not convicted of its murderous terrorist attack in Israel. Israel also rejects a participation of the Palestinian Authority and the UN Palestinian Aid Unk. Both accused the speaker “Corruption and Support of Terrorism”. The Trump plan, on the other hand, is “an opportunity for people in Gaza to have a free choice based on their own will”.
Trump had recently caused a sensation with his advance to transform the Gaza Strip under the control of the United States into an economically flourishing “Riviera of the East” and “to” relocate “the Palestinians living there into Arab states in the region. In view of the thousands of dead and huge destruction in the Gaza War, there was a lot of criticism for Trump’s plan and his choice of words. The outrage became even louder due to a video that he has spread with a vision of AI.
Apartments for three million people and an airport
The Egyptian plan provides for hundreds of thousands of new apartments for three million residents by 2030 and the construction of a flight and a seaport. In addition, there should be industrial areas, but also hotel complexes, parks and beaches to even promote tourism in the current war zone.
The plan also recommends direct discussions between Israelis and Palestinians and contains the renewed demand of a two -state solution. In view of the war between Israel and Hamas, such conversations currently seem to be in fact.
Call to send peace troops
For the summit in Cairo, Egypt’s president and host Abdel Fatah al-Sisi received, among others, the king of Bahrain, the Emir of Qatar as well as UN General Secretary António Guterres and EU Council President António Costa. Guterres said that the Palestinians had “got through more than hell”.
In the final declaration, the summit participants called on the UN Security Council to send peace troops to Gaza and West Bank. This would increase the security for Palestinians as well as for Israelis and the path to a Palestinian state would be paved.
“Red Line”: Hamas rejects his own disarmament
Meanwhile, Hamas confirmed the rejection of a demilitarization of the Gaza Strip required by Israel. A disarmament of the group is a “red line” in the negotiations on the continuation of the ceasefire agreement, said a spokesman for the Hamas of the German Press Agency.
According to media reports, Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Saar had previously said that Israel was ready to overcome Hamas for the second phase of the ceasefire agreement if all hostages are released and the Gaza Strip is completely demilized. There are other armed groups in addition to the Hamas, which are also committed to the fight against Israel.
At the weekend, the first phase of a ceasefire came to an end in the war between Israel and Hamas. So far, both sides have not been able to agree on the conditions of a sequel. It is feared that the Gaza War could flare up again – with possibly devastating consequences for the civilian population in the Gaza Strip and the Israeli hostages, which are still held there 17 months after their kidnapping. This is also completely open whether and when the Egyptian plans could be implemented.
