Arab leaders discuss alternative to Trump Gaza plan at Saudi Arabia meet | Israel-Palestine conflict News

Leaders of seven Arab countries have Holding talks In the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, in an attempt to bring a plan for the future of Gaza.
The gathering was supposed to return on Friday in Riyadh on Plans US President Donald Trump created it to the United States to “control” Gaza, forcibly determines its inhabitants and turns the Palestinian pocket into “Riviera” in the Middle East.
Arab leaders have She rejected Trump’s proposal, saying that he is submitting contracts for work towards the report of the Palestinian destiny, is going to the rights of Gaza residents and will lead to a cycle of regional violence.
They hope to present an alternative plan with a unified support at the Arab League meeting on March 4 in Cairo, Egypt.
The Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, called on the meeting of his leadership, which was attended by King Jordan Abdullah II, Egyptian President Abdul Fahia Al -Sisi, Qatari Amir Sheikh Tarim bin Hamad Al Al, the President of the United States, Sheikh Muhammad Benjid, Abdel -Abd and Bahrain, Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad Al -Shatiya .
There was no official account of the meeting on Friday by any of the countries concerned, and it was not immediately clear whether any details were agreed upon.
Search for a “unified front”
Reports from Riyadh, Hashem Ahlbara from Al -Jazeera, said that the Friday meeting started with a show a Reconstruction plan It was developed by Egypt and depicted as part of a three -stage ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel.
It has been agreed so far on the first stage of this agreement, which witnessed a temporary stopping and prisoner exchange. The second stage will witness a full end of the fighting, while the third stage aims to address the rebuilding of the destroyed Palestinian pocket.
The people of Barra said that the Arab leaders hope to build from the Egyptian plan before the Cairo meeting, so that they can “put a unified front with a new proposal that can be easily sold to Americans and the international public.”
“We are talking about very difficult things that can form the entire area for many years to come,” he said.
He added that it was still to decide to be the issue of how to finance reconstruction in an Arab -led plan. Earlier this week, the World Bank, the United Nations and the European Union said it cost more than $ 53 billion to Rebuilding GazaIncluding $ 20 billion in the first three years.
Ahlbara said that any reconstruction plan also interferes with the broader issues of political and security control in Gaza when the war ends.
Speaking to the island, former Egyptian Foreign Minister Hussein Haridy said that the gathering comes in a “decisive moment for the Palestinians and the Arab nations.”
He said, “Let me quote William Shakespeare, that” to be, or not to be “for the Arab world today.”
“Because if Trump’s proposal came to carry today, this will be the end of the conflict – the Arab struggle and the Palestinian struggle – seven decades ago.”
Israel and many of its Western allies rejected the possibility of Hamas to survive the pocket after the war. Israel also rejected the Palestinian Authority to control Gaza, despite more support from the international community for this possibility.
Observers say that the urgency of reaching a special agreement in particular for Egypt and Jordan, which Trump pressed to accept the Palestinians who collectively.
The US President threatened to block hundreds of millions of dollars as aid if he did not comply. Both countries rejected the planned.
Trump’s alternative
For its part, Cairo has not publicly released the initial reconstruction plan.
However, former Egyptian diplomat Mohamed Highazi had previously made a plan in what he described as “three technical stages over a period of three to five years.”
He said that the first stage of the six months will focus on “early recovery” and removing debris.
The second stage will witness an international conference to develop a detailed plan to restore the infrastructure and rebuild Gaza.
He said that the final stage will witness the provision of housing and services and the establishment of a “political path to implement a two -state solution”, in a reference to the Palestinian state in the end.
Speaking to Al -Jazeera, Abdel Aziz Al -Ghishyan, Director of Research in the East Middle Research, based in Raydeh, said that all countries participating in Friday’s meeting determine how to respond to “administration in the United States, which is almost proud [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu is blind. “
“We have a prime minister in Israel trying to try his luck and increase his efforts,” he said.
Al -Jashian said that any plan led by Arab “cannot distinguish between economics, politics and security”, including a way to self -determination.
“The truth is that all these things are very interconnected,” he said. “We need to start thinking about this in a more interconnected and synergy way.”
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