Europe working with Arab states on alternative to Trump’s Gaza plan

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European states are working to create a Gaza plan to empty Palestinians to Donald Trump with the Arab Allies and to present it as an alternative to its proposal to occupy the United States.

The US President’s concept of US President to turn it into a “Middle East Riviera”, cleansed the war-divided Palestinian region, shocked and appreciated the Arabs and European states.

However, the initiative has also injected a new momentum to discuss how Gaza will be operated and protected after the end of the six -month war with Hamas.

French President Emanuel Macron told the Financial Times that the attempt to oppose Trump’s plan is only “credible if we offer some smarter”.

“It is we have to move forward. There are several very credible options, “he added.

The European diplomat said the foreign ministers of Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Italy will discuss the crisis at the Munich Protection Conference with the main Arab states. The United States is also due to participation, but it is not clear what level and focus on how Arabs and Europeans can work together on “better plan”.

A European official said, “Palestinians and Arabs need to come to a moderate route where they run Gaza, not the United States and not Israel,” said a European official. “This is the gap that needs to be fulfilled, and I think Europeans will work on both the Arabs and the presentation of the plan with the Arabs. That’s what we’re working now. “

Egypt has announced this week that it is working on the reorganization of Gaza, most of which has been reduced to the land attack on Israel’s strips since the October 2021 attack on Hamas October 2122.

Cairo is coordinating with other Arab states, especially with Saudi Arabia and Jordan, in the hope that Trump can prove that it can be rebuilt by not exiting its 2.2 million population.

Trump has called on Egypt and Jordan to accept Palestinians from Gaza, which they both have sharply rejected. They are not seen as complex in the forced displacement of Palestinians, as well as fear that it will threaten regional stability and their own protection.

Before the start of a reconstruction, a plan for the administrative structure of the Arab state and Palestinians needs to agree that Hamas does not control the strip, Arab and European diplomats say.

The concept imposed by Egypt and other Arab states is involved in the establishment of a management committee consisting of Palestinians, which are not related to any group, but supported by the Palestinian authorities, the organization that operates the West Bank parts.

The security material is still being discussed, but probably the existing police force, PA workers in Gaza may be included in the strip after the internal battle with the rival team Fatah in 2007 and after the possible reinforcement of the West Bank.

PA, which is dominated by Fatah, can then invite regional states to participate in the security forces.

An Arab official said a plan is expected to be presented at a summit scheduled later this month.

“After what Trump said, the whole region was coming together and now Europe is uniting and trying to find a solution,” said the officer. “Everyone has an extra idea of ​​emergency.”

The concept of a regional force deployed in Gaza was propagated by the Biden administration. However, it has never been clarified as to which states will agree to send the forces.

For example, Saudi Arabia will consider only after the establishment of the Palestinian state. Arab officials said the lowest would require the United States and Israel to formally recognize a state, including Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem and a sovereign Palestinian government, Arab officials said.

There is also a lot of doubt as to whether Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far right government will adopt any Arab plan for Gaza.

Netanyahu has repeatedly refused to end the war, taking some steps towards the Palestinians’ discount or the establishment of the Palestinian state. He further emphasized that Israel did not allow Western -backed PA to run Gaza.

Diplomats feared that Netanyahu and his right friend were encouraged by Trump’s statement in Gaza-the President announced plans to take the strip during hosting Netanyahu at the White House.

Arab diplomats say that there is extra urgency because they are afraid that a fragile hostage-for-crazfire can unveil the deal.

According to an evaluation operated by the World Bank, the EU and the United Nations, the loss of infrastructure with the destruction of $ 16 billion in the housing sector is estimated to be around $ 30 billion.

Laila Abboud and Ben in Paris are additional reports; By cartography Aditi Bhandari