Egypt will present ‘vision’ to rebuild gaza without displacement

Egypt has said that he is working on an “integral vision” for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip devastated by the war that guarantees the Palestinians the right to remain in their lands, unlike the proposal presented by the president of the United States , Donald Trump.

The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it hoped to cooperate with the Trump administration to reach “a single settlement of the Palestinian cause.”

He followed Trump’s meeting with Jordan’s King Abdullah on Tuesday, where he doubled his plan for the United States to take over Gaza and permanently move the two million Palestinians who live there to Jordan, Egypt and other places.

Abdullah said that each Arab State rejected the idea, and that Egypt would present an alternative.

The UN has warned that any forced displacement of the population of the territory would be illegal according to international law and “equivalent to ethnic cleaning.”

It is a growing concern that the fighting in Gaza could resume, after Israel’s prime minister warned Hamas that would end the fire high if the Palestinian armed group “does not return our hostages on Saturday.”

Benjamin Netanyahu issued the ultimatum after Hamas said he was postponing more hostage to new warning, claiming that Israel had violated the terms of the high fire agreement.

Sitting next to King Abdullah in the White House on Tuesday, Trump said there had been “great progress” in his proposal to take care of Gaza.

“With the United States with the control of that piece of land … you can have stability in the Middle East for the first time,” he told reporters. “And the Palestinians, or the people who live now in Gaza, will live wonderfully elsewhere.”

When journalists press it to comment on the plan to force the Palestinians to relocate with Jordan, King Abdullah said: “We have to take into account that there is an Egypt Plan and Arab countries.”

Later, the king wrote in X that he had “repeated Jordan’s firm position against the displacement of the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank” during the meeting, adding: “This is the unified Arab position.”

Trump had said before the meeting that he could “possibly” stop the aid to Jordan and Egypt if they refused to cooperate with their plan and enjoy the displaced gacios.

Not long after the king’s comments, the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said he hoped to cooperate with the Trump administration to reach “a single settlement of the Palestinian cause.”

“In this context, Egypt affirms its intention to present an integral vision for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, in a way that ensures that the Palestinian people remain in their lands and in line with the legitimate rights of these people,” is added , without giving any detail.

President Abdul Fattaah Al-Sisi also told Prime Minister Danish Mette Frederiksen in a phone call on Tuesday that Gaza’s reconstruction must occur “without displacing the Palestinians,” said his office.

It was not clear immediately when Egypt would present its alternative Gaza plan.

Cairo will be the host of an emergency Arab summit to discuss the “serious” developments for the Palestinians on February 27, while King Abdullah said that the Saudi heir prince Mohammed Bin Salman had invited the Arab leaders to Riad in a Non -specified date.

Sisi also received an open invitation from Trump to visit the White House during a phone call earlier this month. However, Egyptian security sources told Reuters News Agency on Wednesday that Sisi would not travel to Washington if the agenda included Trump’s plan.

Abeer Barakat, a Palestinian teacher in the city of Gaza, told the BBC that he believed that Trump’s plan was “impossible to achieve” but that he had enraged people.

“We are worried that Jordan and Egypt be folded by Trump’s threats,” he said.

The Palestinians fear a repetition of Nakba, the Arabic word for “catastrophe”, when hundreds of thousands fled or were expelled from their homes before and during the war that followed the creation of the state of Israel in 1948.

Many of those refugees ended up in Gaza, where they and their descendants represent three quarters of the population. Another 900,000 registered refugees live in the occupied West Bank, while 3.4 million others live in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, according to the UN.

Asked by journalists on Monday if the United States would force the Palestinians to leave Gaza, Trump replied that “everyone will want to leave.” He also said in an interview that the Gazans would not have the right to return because he was “talking about building a permanent place for them.”

The Israeli army launched a campaign to destroy Hamas in response to an unprecedented cross -border attack on October 7, 2023, in which some 1,200 people were killed and 251 were taken as hostages.

Since then, more than 48,220 people have been killed in Gaza, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health of the territory.

Most of the population of Gaza has also been displaced several times, it is estimated that almost 70% of buildings are damaged or destroyed, health, water, sanitation and hygiene systems have collapsed, and there is food shortage, food shortages, fuel, medicine and shelter.