Herald-Sun | 23 February 2025
Anything has to better than the evil Trump n/ Netanyahu plan – Mark
Riyadh: Arab leaders have met in Riyadh to craft a plan for Gaza’s post-war reconstruction to counter Donald Trump’s proposal for the United States to take over the territory without its Palestinian inhabitants.
Mr Trump’s plan has united Arab states in opposition to it, but disagreements remain over who should govern Gaza and how its reconstruction can be funded.
An image published on Saudi state television showed the kingdom’s de facto leader Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman with the leaders of other Gulf Arab states, Egypt and Jordan.
A source close to the Saudi government confirmed the meeting had finished but the hosts did not immediately publish a final statement.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s office said he had left the Saudi capital after the meeting with the leaders of Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
A Saudi source had earlier said the Palestinian Authority, Hamas’s West Bank-based rival, was also expected to take part in the talks.
Mr Trump triggered global outrage when he proposed the US “take over” the Gaza Strip and relocate its more than two million residents to Egypt and Jordan.
“We’re at a very important historic juncture in the Arab-Israeli or Israeli-Palestinian conflict … where potentially the United States under Trump could create new facts on the ground that are irreversible,” Andreas Krieg of King’s College London said ahead of the meeting.
The Saudi source had said the summit participants would discuss “a reconstruction plan to counter Mr Trump’s plan for Gaza”. The Gaza Strip is largely in ruins after more than 15 months of war between Israel and Hamas.
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