The President of Egypt Abdel Fattah El-Sisi poses for a photo with leaders when Egypt organizes Arab Summit Arab in order to discuss Palestinian development in the new administrative capital of Egypt in Cairo, March 4, 2025.
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Arab states under the leadership of Egypt accepted a road map to rebuild gauze as a “comprehensive Arabic plan”, counteracting President Donald Trump's proposal about the reconstruction of the belt, transforming gauze into something that he calls the “Middle East” and displacement of Palestinians.
The White House effectively rejected the Arabic plan, saying: “The current proposal does not apply to reality that Gaza is now dissatisfied, and the inhabitants cannot live humanly in the territory covered by the remnant and insignificant,” said the spokesman of the National Security Council Brian Hughes in a statement, putting through the controversial proposal of Donald Trump.
The Arabic plan, visible by CNBC, claims that $ 53 billion is needed to rebuild the besieged belt, the number issued last month by joint UN-EU-WORLD bank report. The almost 100-page plan, called “Gaza 2030”, covered the Egyptian presidential logo and was checked by Arab states on Tuesday at the emergency summit in Cairo. It aims to side Hamas and proposes the final control of Palestinian authority in a besieged belt.
In the final communication of the summit, Arab countries called on the international community and “international and regional financing institutions to quickly ensure the necessary support for the plan.” The proposal does not indicate who will specify the act specifically, but it can see the European contribution, as well as richer states of the Persian Gulf, such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
The plan has become fire to omit key answers to such issues as management, the future of Hamas and funds, and faces “real obstacles to becoming reality,” said Paul Musgrave, a government professor at the University of Georgetown in Qatar, Dan Murphy from CNBC.
“This is a great document, but it is also something that I am not sure is a really serious plan because it evades the two biggest questions. One, would Hamas ever agree to political preliminary conditions for making this great vision? Two or Israelis would ever agree on how to harmonize this unification of Palestinians, “Musgrave added.
Military vehicles operate in northern Gaza, among the suspension of weapons between Israel and Hamas, as can be seen from Israel on February 9, 2025.
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Israel slammed this proposal and said that before the discussions of progress after receiving help or extending the ceasefire, Hamas must first slow down all other Israeli gauze hostages.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel spokesman He shot the proposal and said that “he could not cope with the reality of the situation on October 7, 2023, remaining rooted in outdated perspectives,” while expressing the encouragement to the plan of President Trump.
Meanwhile, the summit message also expressed support for the “international conference on early reconstruction of recovery in Gaza Strip”, which is scheduled for this month in Cairo, in cooperation with the UN.
Arab countries have also announced that they will work on establishing a “trust fund” supervised by the World Bank, which aims to “receive financial promises from all donor and financial institutions in order to implement early recovery and reconstruction projects.”
Reconstruction of Gaza
In the most concise plan for rebuilding so far, gauze presents a three -stage plan, which culminated in 2030.
The first phase will last six months and will cost $ 3 billion, during which debris will be removed in some areas. It is expected that seven sites will accommodate over 1.5 million people with temporary apartments, delivered to resettled during the reconstruction process.
People go towards their homes through the destroyed streets of the city of Gaza on January 19, 2025.
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The second phase, lasting two years at a cost of $ 20 billion, will be built for residential units for $ 1.6 million and restoring facilities, services and networks.
The third phase, lasting two and a half years at the cost of $ 30 billion, will be aimed at continuing the process of “establishing the necessary facilities, networks and service buildings”, while building flats for another 1.2 million people. We hope that these new units will be able to accommodate 3 million people.
Gaza management
The proposal does not cover the future for Hamas fighters in a besieged belt, but he outlines that “administration will take over the management of Gaza's affairs in the transitional phase for 6 months, an independent committee consisting of technocrat and non -fictional forms, under the umbrella of the Palestinian government.”
Arab states have stated that the ultimate goal is to allow the “Palestinian nation body to return to the Gaza Strep.”
Arab countries called for “conducting presidential and legislative elections in all Palestinian areas for a year, if the appropriate conditions are available.” In a statement for CNBC, a senior political official Hamas said that the group was satisfied with the election, saying that for years it was a request to give “Palestine a chance to choose a representative leadership and their political path.”
There are still questions about how or if Hamas agrees to disarm, but the group said CNBC that the Arab plan contained “positive elements, as well as a road map, which is suitable for a practical proposal.”