The Arab state and government heads adopted an Egyptian reconstruction plan for Gaza on Tuesday, which would cost 53 billion US dollars in the USA and the establishment of the Palestinians, in contrast to US President Donald Trump’s “Middle East Riviera” Vision, according to a copy of the plan.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi said the proposal was accepted when a summit was closed in Cairo.
Sisi said at the summit that he was sure that Trump would be able to reach peace in the conflict that destroyed the Gaza Strip on the ground.
The main questions that have to be answered about the future of Gaza are who will lead the enclave and which countries need the billions of dollars for reconstruction.
Sisi said in cooperation with Palestinians on the creation of an administrative committee of independent, professional Palestinian technocrats who were entrusted with the governance of Gaza Strip.
The committee would be responsible for the supervision of humanitarian aid and the administration of the matters of the strip for a temporary time to prepare for the return of the Palestinian authority (PA), he said.
Hamas welcomed the plan of Egypt on Tuesday and demanded that funds be provided for their success.
The Palestinian President welcomes the Egyptian plan
The other critical problem is the fate of the Palestinian militant militant group Hamas, the PA Rival and leader of Gaza, who triggered the war by attacking Israel on October 7, 2023, killing around 1,200 people and, according to Israeli schools, took more than 250 hostages.
The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who heads the PA, said he welcomed the Egyptian idea and asked Trump to support such a plan in which the residents of the Palestinian residents would not be replaced.
Abbas, in power since 2005, also said that he was ready to prevent presidential and parliamentary elections when the circumstances allow this, and added that his PA was the only legitimate government and military force in the Palestinian areas.
Israel says that it will continue to block all humanitarian aid in Gaza Strip, unless Hamas agrees to extend the first phase of the ceasefire contract that has expired on Saturday. Hamas wants to deal directly in phase 2 of the original agreement, which includes all Israeli forces that retire from the Gaza Strip.
An architect of the Oslo peace agreement in 1993 with Israel, who excited the hopes for the Palestinian statehood, has constantly undermined his legitimacy by the Israeli settlement building in the occupied West Bank, which he monitors.
Many Palestinians now consider his administration to be corrupt, undemocratic and not in contact.
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Every reconstruction financing would require a strong buy-in in oil-rich Golf-Arab states such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia who have the billions required.
The VAE, which Hamas and other Islamists see as an existential threat, want to do an immediate and complete disarmament of the group, while other Arab countries support a gradual approach, said a source that is close to the matter.
A source near the Royal Court of Saudi -Arabia says that the continued armed presence of Hamas in Gaza is a stumbling block because strong objections from the United States and Israel, which would have to unsubscribe, have severe objections.
In a speech at the summit, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal Bin Farhan said that international guarantees were necessary that the current temporary ceasefire would exist and support the role of PA in managing the strip.
VAE and Qatar leaders did not speak during open meetings of the summit.
Hamas was founded in 1987 by the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood during the first Palestinian Intifada or the uprising.
The high -ranking Hamas officer Sami Abu Zuhri rejected the Israeli on Tuesday and the US group called for the disarmament that his right to resistance was not negotiable.
Abu Zuhri announced Reuters that the group would not accept an attempt to impose projects or any form of non-Palestinian administration or the presence of foreign forces.
Since Hamas drove the Palestinian authority from Gaza after a short civil war in 2007, it has crushed all opposition there.
The Arab countries in Egypt, Jordan and Golf have had an alternative to Trump’s ambition for the expulsion of Palestinians and a US conversion of the Gaza Strip for almost a month to destabilize the entire region.
A draft of the final communique of the summit, which Reuter has previously seen, rejected the mass shift of the Palestinians from Gaza.
The reconstruction plan for Gaza in Egypt is a 112-page document that contains maps about how its country would be renovated and dozens of colorful images of ai-generated images of housing developments, gardens and community centers. The plan includes a commercial port, a technology center, beach hotels and an airport.
It is unlikely that Israel contradicts an Arabic company that takes responsibility for the Gaza government when Hamas is over, said a source familiar with the matter.
But an Israeli civil servant told Reuters that Israel’s war was aiming from the start to destroy Hamas’ military and government skills.
“If you get Hamas to agree to demilitarize, it must be immediately. Nothing else will be acceptable,” said the official.
Sources who were familiar with Hamas said that the group had lost only a few thousand fighters in the Gaza Strip, in which, according to Palestinian health care officers, more than 48,000 people were killed.
According to Israeli officials, around 20,000 Hamas fighters were killed and the group destroyed as an organized military formation.
