The American president Donald Trump indicated that he has not seen the proposal presented by Egypt, currently discussed by the Arab leaders as an alternative to his plan to control Gaza once the war between Hamas and Israel has ended.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said on Wednesday night that he has not seen the proposal that Arab leaders are discussing as an alternative to their plan to control Gaza once the war between Hamas and Israel has ended.
“I have not seen it,” Trump said in response to a journalist's question at the Air Force One. “Once I see her, I will let him know,” he added.
Trump said earlier this month that he wants relocate almost 2 million Palestinians from Gaza in neighbors Jordan and Egypt. He added that the United States “will take over” of the territory and make it the “Riviera del Middle East”, which caused the rejection of Arab countries.
It is not clear if Trump is serious or simply seeks to get concessions from the Arab states. During a meeting with the Saudi heir prince Mohammed Bin Salman in Riyadh this week, the United States Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, suggested that the latter could be, urging regional leaders to make a counteroffie.
The envoys of Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates will meet on Friday in Riyadh to discuss options, including an Egyptian plan to raise up to 20,000 million dollars in three years of the Arab and Gulf of the Gulf for reconstruction of Gaza. According to this plan, the inhabitants of Gaza would not be expelled and the strip would be governed by Palestinians.
Saudi connection
Trump talked on the way to Washington after giving a speech at a conference in Miami, organized by the Future Investment Initiative InstituteThe non -profit arm of the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia, the sovereign of the wealth of the kingdom led by the heir prince.
His speech marked the first time an American president went to the Annual Global Financial and Technology Executives Meeting. It is a testimony of how the Saudi heir prince, known for his MBS initials, has taken advantage of his connection with Trump, said Laura Blumenfeld, principal researcher at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
The prince established close links during Trump's first mandate and continued the commercial links with the Trump organization while the president was out of office, including the investment of 2,000 million dollars in a company belonging to the son -in -law and exasisant of Trump, Jared Kushner.
“Trump believes in the golden rule, but not in the golden school rule,” Blumenfeld told VOA. “If you're rich, you're right.”
While Riad leads the initiative to unify Arab nations to support Gaza after the war, there may be signs that Trump is softening his demand. In his comments, Trump did not mention Gaza beyond repeating what he said was his role in the high fire signed on January 19, during the last day in the position of the then President Joe Biden.
“We have gained fire in Gaza, and we are bringing hostages and we are bringing them home with their families,” Trump said, adding that some of the hostages “are in quite a bad condition.”
He praised Yasir Al-Rumayyan, governor of the Saudi wealth fund, and the Saudi Finance Minister Mohammed Bin Abdullah Al-Jadaan. The White House did not immediately answer VOA's question about whether Trump met with a member of the Saudi delegation during the event.
During his comments on Wednesday, Trump thanked the Saudi heir prince for hosting the conversations between US and Russian officials on Wednesday to find a way to end the war in Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and his European allies have criticized the meeting as an effort to marginalize kyiv.
Egyptian proposal on Gaza
The Egyptian state newspaper Al-Ahram said that according to the proposal, “safe areas” will be established with mobile homes and shelters as habitable areas in Gaza while Egyptian and international construction companies reconstruct the devastated infrastructure.
The proposal also asks for the formation of a National Palestinian Committee of Technocrats and Community Leaders not affiliated with Hamas to govern Gaza after the war.
It is not clear if the Plan has the support of the Palestinian authority, the internationally recognized agency that currently governs parts of the West Bank and administered Gaza until it lost the 2006 elections before Hamas.
“What is needed now is a political solution for Gaza that makes reconstruction both physically possible and sustainable in the long term,” said Tariq Kenney-Shawa, a member of the US policy in the Palestinian policy network Al-Shabaka.
The objective is that “let's not return to a situation in which Gaza remains under occupation,” he told VOA.
On Monday, Hamas indicated his willingness to give up any post -war governance role.
“It is not necessary for Hamas to be part of the political and administrative agreements in the next phase for Gaza, especially if it serves the interests of our people,” said Hamas spokesman, Hazem Qasim, Al Arabiya TV.
Hamas made the conciliatory statement while the negotiations for the second phase of Alto El Fuego are scheduled to start in days, after weeks late. However, it fulfills only part of the key demand of Israel and the United States: the elimination of the government and military role of Hamas in the postwar Gaza.
Until now, Hamas has not shown that it would be disassembled. Meanwhile, Israel has not defined what it considers an alternative government entity acceptable to Hamas and has rejected any participation of the Palestinian authority.
The Egyptian proposal does not solve a long -standing problem between the parties in conflict. Israeli leaders oppose any postwar plan that allane the path to a solution of two states, while a sovereign Palestine remains a key requirement for Palestinians and Arab countries.
Accelerated hostage release
A senior Hamas official announced earlier this week that the group will return the remains of four deceased Israeli hostages and release six living in exchange for hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, including 47 high -rank members of Hamas. Israel will also allow the entry of mobile houses and construction equipment to Gaza.
The six live hostages are the last to be released by virtue of the first phase of the high fire that demanded the gradual release of 33 hostages, eight of which are believed to be dead. Hamas took about 250 hostages and killed some 1,200 people in the October 2023 attack against Israel.
The analysts said that the accelerated exchange of hostages and prisoners could mean that both parties are eager to ensure what they can now, due to the concerns that the truce will collapse before the phase one expires next week.
“What we are seeing now is possibly a faster resolution of phase two,” said Mirette Mabouk, principal researcher at the Middle East Institute.
“But that happens, then that somehow indicates that the conflict is close to finishing,” he told VOA. “And that is something that the Prime Minister (Israeli) Netanyahu has said that he will not want without Hamas being disarmed.”
It is believed that Hamas has about 70 more prisoners, half of them alive. He insists that he will only release them in exchange for a permanent purpose of the fighting and a total withdrawal of the Israeli troops of Gaza.
According to the Ministry of Health of Gaza, the Israeli counteroffensive to Hamas's attack has displaced more than two million Palestinians and has killed more than 48,200 people, mostly women and children. The Israeli army states that the dead of the dead includes 17,000 militants.