Arab leaders adopted an Egyptian reconstruction plan for Gaza on Tuesday, which would cost $ 53 billion in the United States and would avoid reinstalling the Palestinians, unlike the vision of the “Middle East Riviera” by US President Donald Trump, according to a copy of the plan.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sissi said the proposal was accepted at the end of a summit in Cairo.
Sisi said that at the top, it was certain that Trump would be able to achieve peace in the conflict that devastated the Gaza Strip.
The main questions to which must be answered about the future of Gaza are which will direct the enclave and which countries will provide the billions of dollars necessary for reconstruction.
Sisi said that Egypt had worked in cooperation with the Palestinians on the creation of an administrative committee of independent and professional Palestinian technocrats responsible for Gaza governance.
The committee would be responsible for monitoring humanitarian aid and the management of strip affairs for a temporary period, in preparation for the return of the Palestinian Authority (PA), he said.
Hamas welcomed Egypt on Tuesday and called to provide means for its success.
The Palestinian President welcomes the Egyptian plan
The other critical problem is the fate of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, the rival and the head of the Gaza AP, which sparked the war by attacking Israel on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people and taking more than 250 hostages, according to Israeli prices.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who directed the AP, said that he had welcomed the Egyptian idea and urged Trump to support such a plan that would not imply the Palestinian residents.
Abbas, in power since 2005, also declared that he was ready to organize presidential and parliamentary elections if the circumstances allowed, adding that his PA was the only legitimate government and the military force in the Palestinian territories.
Israel says that he will continue to block all humanitarian assistance in Gaza unless Hamas accepts to extend the first phase of the ceasefire agreement, which expired on Saturday. Hamas wants to go directly to phase 2 of the initial agreement, which includes all the Israeli forces withdraw from Gaza.
Architect of the 1993 Oslo peace agrees with Israel who raised the hope of the Palestinian state, Abbas saw its legitimacy regularly compromised by the building of the Israeli colonies in occupied West Bank, which it supervises.
Many Palestinians now consider his administration to be corrupt, undemocratic and disconnected.
Critical Gulf States
Any reconstruction funding would require an intensive purchase of oil -rich Arab states such as the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, which have the necessary billions of dollars.
The United Arab Emirates, who consider Hamas and other Islamists as an existential threat, wants an immediate and complete disarmament of the group, while other Arab countries recommend a progressive approach, according to a source close to the issue.
A source close to the Royal Court of Saudi Arabia claims that the continuous army presence of Hamas in Gaza was a stumbling block due to strong objections of the United States and Israel, which would need to sign on any plane.
In a speech at the top, the Saudi Foreign Minister, Prince Faisal, Bin Farhan, said that international guarantees were necessary for the current temporary ceasefire to remain in place and support the role of AP in the governance of the band.
The leaders of the water and Qatar did not speak during the open sessions of the summit.
Hamas was founded in 1987 by the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood during the first Palestinian intifada, or uprising.
The senior Hamas official, Sami Abu Zuhri, rejected Israeli calls on Tuesday and calls to the United States for the group to disarm, saying that his right to resist was not negotiable.
Abu Zuhri told Reuters that the group would accept no attempt to impose projects, nor any form of non -Palestinian administration or the presence of foreign forces.
Since Hamas hunted the Palestinian Authority in Gaza after a brief civil war in 2007, she crushed any opposition to it.
Egypt, Jordan and the Arab States of the Gulf have been consulting an alternative to Trump’s ambition for almost a month for the trip of the Palestinians and an American reconstruction of Gaza, who are afraid of destabilizing the whole region.
A final press release project previously seen by Reuters firmly rejected the mass movement of the Palestinians from Gaza.
The Egypt’s reconstruction plan for Gaza is an 112 -page document which includes cards of the way its land would be redeveloped and dozens of colorful images generated by the AI of housing, gardens and community centers. The plan includes a commercial port, a technological center, beach hotels and an airport.
Israel is unlikely to oppose an Arab entity which assumes responsibility for the Gaza government if Hamas was not on the scene, said a familiar source with the issue.
But an Israeli official told Reuters that the objectives of the War of Israel from the start were to destroy the military and governing capacities of Hamas.
“Therefore, if they want to have Hamas accepted, it must be immediately acceptable,” said the official.
Sources familiar with Hamas have said that the group had lost only a few thousand fighters in the Gaza War, in which more than 48,000 people were killed, Palestinian health officials said.
Israeli officials say that around 20,000 Hamas fighters were killed and that the group was destroyed as an organized military training.
