Washington, MINA – The White House expressed its opposition on Tuesday to a proposal at an Arab leaders’ summit to rebuild Gaza, arguing that it does not address the current “realities” in the war-torn enclave, Anadolu Agency reported.
“The current proposal does not address the reality that Gaza is currently uninhabitable and that residents cannot live humanely in an area covered in rubble and unexploded ordnance,” National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes said in an emailed statement to Anadolu.
“President (Donald) Trump remains committed to his vision of rebuilding a Gaza free of Hamas. We look forward to further talks to bring peace and prosperity to the region,” he added.
An emergency Arab summit in Cairo on Tuesday adopted Egypt’s $53 billion reconstruction plan to rebuild the Gaza Strip without displacing Palestinians from their land.
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The summit highlighted that it tasked an Arab legal committee to study the classification of the displacement of Palestinians as part of the crime of genocide.
The summit further called on the UN Security Council to deploy an international peacekeeping force in the West Bank and Gaza, with the aim of supporting a political horizon “for the realization of a Palestinian state.”
The Arab proposal comes after Trump’s extraordinary plan to “take over” Gaza and resettle Palestinians to develop it into what he calls a “Middle Eastern Riviera.”
His plan has been rejected by the Arab world and many other countries, who say it amounts to ethnic cleansing. Nearly 48,400 Palestinians have been killed, most of them women and children, and more than 111,000 injured in Israel’s brutal war on Gaza since October 2023. []
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