US and Israel reject Arab alternative to Trump’s Gaza reconstruction plan

The United States and Israel rejected an Arab plan to rebuild the Gaza Strip after the war that allows 2.1 million Palestinians living there to stay in place.

The proposal, which was approved by Arab leaders at a summit in Cairo, is their alternative to President Donald Trump’s idea of ​​the United States to take over Gaza and resettle its inhabitants permanently.

The Palestinian Authority and Hamas welcomed the Arab plan, which calls for a temporary governing of Gaza by a committee of independent experts and to obtain the international peace lawyer there.

But both the White House and the Israeli Foreign Ministry said it failed to address the facts in Gaza and stood in Trump’s vision.

The summit took place amid increasing concern that the fragile ceasefire deal in Gaza may collapse after the end of the first stage of six weeks last Saturday.

Israel prevented assistance from entering the region to pressure Hamas to accept a new American proposal for a temporary extension of engineering, during which more hostages will be launched in Gaza in exchange for Palestinian prisoners.

Hamas insisted that the second stage should start as agreed upon, which leads to the end of the war and withdrawing the full Israeli forces.

The Arab plan is of $ 53 billion (41 billion pounds) to rebuild Gaza as soon as the war ended by Egypt at the emergency Arab League summit on Tuesday.

A supportive statement of the plan affirmed “factional rejection of any form of displacement of the Palestinian people,” describing such an idea as “a serious violation of international law, a crime against humanity and ethnic cleansing.”

The reconstruction plan, which takes place, takes three years, takes five years, as about 1.5 million Ghazan of the displaced will be transported to 200,000 pre -made housing units and 60,000 fixed houses.

In the first stage, which will last six months and cost 3 billion dollars, millions of tons of rubble and any unsuccessful ammunition will be wiped.

The second stage, which lasted two years and costs 20 billion dollars, will witness the rebuilding of housing and facilities. An airport, naval ports and an industrial area will be built during the third stage, which will take two years and cost 30 billion dollars.

The Arab plan also suggests that an “administrative committee” consists of independent Palestinian technocrats run Gaza after the war for a transitional period while “working to enable the Palestinian Authority to return.”

Hamas – which is prohibited as a terrorist organization by Israel, the United States, the United Kingdom and others – took control of Gaza in 2007, where forces from the Palestinian Authority, which is controlled by Fateh, were exposed in violent clashes a year after its victory in the parliamentary elections. The Palestinian Authority left parts of the occupied West Bank.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who heads the Palestinian Authority, told the summit that he welcomed the Arab plan and urged Donald Trump to support it.

Hamas said he appreciated “the Arab position rejects attempts to remove our people.”

However, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs quickly rejected the Arab League’s permit, which honestly, saying it was “failing to address the facts of the situation after October 7, 2023, and remain rooted in old views.”

“Now, with President Trump’s idea, there is a chance for Jazan to have a free option based on their free will. This must be encouraged!” He added.

“Instead, the Arab countries rejected this opportunity, without giving them a fair opportunity, and continuing baseless accusations from Israel.”

Brian Hughes, a spokesman for the National Security Council at the White House, said that the Arab plan did not address the fact that Gaza is currently not valid for the population and that the population cannot live in a humanitarian way in an area covered with debris and uninterrupted guidance.

“President Trump stands alongside his vision to rebuild Gaza free of Hamas. We look forward to more talks to bring peace and prosperity to the region.”

Last month, Trump suggested that the United States “owns” Gaza and moves its residents, so that it can be rebuilt and converted to “Riviera in the Middle East.”

He said that the displaced Palestinians will not have the right to return because they will have a “much better housing” in Egypt, Jordan and other countries.

The Assistant Secretary -General of the Arab League, House of Zaki, told the BBC on Wednesday that Trump’s approach is unacceptable.

He said, “It depends on the forced displacement of the Palestinians from their homes and lands.

“This is a war partially launched by Israel with the aim of removing the Palestinians from their lands,” he added.

He also described the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs’s response to the Arab plan as “against humanity and against ethics.”

The Palestinians are afraid of repeating the Nakba – the Arabic word for a “disaster” – when hundreds of thousands of their homes fled and during the war that followed the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948.

It ended with many of these refugees in Gaza, where they and their offspring are three quarters of the population. Another 900,000 registered refugees live in the West Bank, while 3.4 million people live in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, according to the United Nations.

The Israeli army launched a campaign to destroy Hamas in response to an unprecedented attack across the border on October 7, 2023, where about 1,200 people were killed and 251 grooves were taken.

More than 4,800 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health in the region.

Most of the people of Gaza were displaced several times. Nearly 70 % of buildings are estimated at damage or destruction; Healthcare, water, sanitation and hygiene systems collapsed; There is a lack of food, fuel, medicine and shelter.