Egypt to submit ‘vision’ to restore gas without displacement

Egypt said he was working on a “comprehensive vision” about the reconstruction of the war -destroyed strip, which guarantees the Palestinians the right to stay on their ground, unlike the proposal proposed by US President Donald Trump.

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry said it hoped to cooperate with the Trump administration in order to achieve “a fair settlement of the Palestinian cause.”

Trump’s meeting with Jordan King Abdullah followed on Tuesday, where he doubled on his plan for the United States to seize the gas and to move the two million Palestinians living there in Jordan, Egypt and other places.

Abdullah said that every Arab state rejected the idea and that Egypt would present an alternative.

The UN warned that any forced displacement of the population on the territory would be illegal under international law and “equivalent to ethnic cleansing”.

He comes against the backdrop of increasing concern that gas fighting can be resumed after Israel’s Prime Minister warned Hamas that he would end the fire if the Palestinian armed group “does not return our hostages until Saturday.”

Benjamin Netanyahu issued the ultimatum after Hamas said he postponed the release of more hostages to a more on -date notification, claiming that Israel had violated the conditions for the transaction to terminate the fire.

Sitting with King Abdullah in the White House on Tuesday, Trump said there was a “great progress” in his proposal to take a gas.

“Because the United States controls this 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 beautifully elsewhere.”

When pressed by reporters to comment on the plan to force the Palestinians to move to Jordan, King Abdulla said, “We must bear in mind that there is a plan from Egypt and the Arab countries.”

Later, the king wrote to X that he “repeated Jordan’s unwavering position against the displacement of the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Coast” during the meeting, adding: “This is the united Arab position.”

Trump had said before the meeting that he could “stop the help of Jordan and Egypt if they refused to cooperate with his plan and take on displaced Gazani.

Not long after the remarks of the King, the Foreign Ministry of Egypt said he hoped to cooperate with the Trump administration in order to reach the “fair settlement of the Palestinian cause”.

“In this context, Egypt confirms its intention to present a complete vision for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, in a way that guarantees the Palestinian people to remain on their land and in accordance with the legal and legitimate rights of that people,” he added without giving No details.

President Abdul Fatah al -Sisi also told the Danish Prime Minister Met Fredericksen in a telephone call on Tuesday that Gaza’s reconstruction should happen “without shifting the Palestinians,” his cabinet said.

It was unclear immediately when Egypt would present its alternative Gaza plan.

Cairo should host an emergency Arab summit to discuss the “serious” developments for the Palestinians on February 27, while King Abdulla stated that the Crown Prince of the Saudi part Mohammed bin Salman had invited Riyadh’s Arab leaders to an unspecified date.

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

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

“We are worried that Jordan and Egypt will bend from Trump’s threats,” she said.

The Palestinians are afraid of the recurrence of Nakba, the Arabic word for “disaster” – 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 these refugees found themselves in Gaza, where they and their descendants make up three -quarters of the population. Another 900,000 registered refugees live on the occupied West Coast, while 3.4 million others live in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, according to the UN.

Asked by reporters on Monday if the US would force the Palestinians to leave the gas, Trump replied that “they will all want to leave.” He also said in an interview that Gazanas would not be entitled to return because “he talks about building a permanent place for them.”

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

Since then, more than 48 220 people have been killed in Gaza, according to the health ministry in Hamas.

The greater part of the gas population has also been replaced repeatedly, almost 70% of the buildings are evaluated by damaged or destroyed, health, water, sanitary conditions and hygiene systems have collapsed and there is a shortage of food, fuel, medicine and shelter.