The Islamic Cooperation Organization (OCI) This Saturday approved an Arab plan for the reconstruction of Loopin response to the project Donald Trump to take control of the Palestinian territory and expel its inhabitants.
The Foreign Ministers of the 57 members of the OCI were gathered since Friday at the organization’s headquarters in Yedá, in Saudi Arabia, to examine the plan, approved by the Arab League on Tuesday in Egypt.
The OCI “approved the plan (…) about the rapid recovery and reconstruction of Gaza,” said a statement on Saturday.
This organization, which represents the Muslim world, has asked “the international community and international and regional financial institutions that quickly provide the necessary support,” adds the text.
The plan, prepared by Egypt, plans to rebuild the Gaza Stripdestroyed for 15 months of war between Israel and Hamas, without displacing its 2.4 million inhabitants.
The Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty announced to AFP the adoption of the Egyptian proposal “which has now become an Arab-Islamic plan.” “It is undoubtedly something very positive,” he added.
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, caused a wave of international indignation with his idea of transferring the Palestinians of Gaza to Egypt and Jordan to convert the territory into the “Riviera de Oriente Medio”.
At a summit held on Tuesday in Cairo, Arab leaders also announced the creation of a fund to finance Gaza’s reconstruction and urged the international community to support it.
“An international plan”
“The next step will be to turn this plan into an international plan, which must be approved by the European Union and by international partners such as Japan, Russia, China and others,” said Abdelatty.
In this sense, Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Italy They greeted the proposal on Saturday in a joint statement, which qualify as “realistic path towards the reconstruction of Gaza”.
“If it is implemented” will be “a rapid and lasting improvement of the catastrophic living conditions of the Palestinians living in Gaza,” according to the statement of the foreign ministers of those countries.
The Arab Plan endorsed by the OCI leaves Hamas on the margin and provides that the Palestinian authority, expelled from the territory in 2007 by the Palestinian Islamist movement, manages Gaza.
However, the proposal has been rejected by Israel and criticized by the United States.
The American special envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, said the plan “does not meet expectations” but is a “first step in good faith by the Egyptians.”
According to Rabha Seif Alam, from the Center for Political and Strategic Studies of Al Ahram in Cairo, Egypt needed “broad support” to build a “great coalition that rejects the displacement of the Palestinians of Gaza.”
Source: Gestion
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