Arab leaders approve $53bn alternative to Trump's Gaza plan

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

Arab leaders approve $53bn alternative to Trump's Gaza plan

4 March 2025

Lyse Doucet
Chief International Correspondent
Reporting fromCairo
Wael Hussein
BBC News
Reporting fromCairo

A $53bn (£41.4 billion) reconstruction plan to rival President Donald Trump's idea for the US to "take over Gaza" and move out more than two million Palestinians has been approved by Arab leaders at an emergency summit in the Egyptian capital Cairo.

"The Egypt plan is now an Arab plan," announced the secretary general of the Arab League Ahmed Aboul Gheit at the end of this hours-long gathering.

Without referring specifically to President Trump's ideas, he underlined that "the Arab stance is to reject any displacement, whether it is voluntary or forced".

Egypt had produced a detailed blueprint, with a 91-page glossy document including images of leafy neighbourhoods and grand public buildings, to counter a US scheme labelled as a "Middle East Riviera" which shocked the Arab world and beyond.

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[NH Ethylene]

1. I'm glad they are uniting and forming plans to deal with the Gaza issue.

I've always wanted the Arab countries to advocate for the Palestinians. The US certainly isn't interested in their fate. Of course, the threat of sending millions of refugees to other Arab countries is probably a motivating factor.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Another benefit: Economic Development

This could strengthen the foundations of a functional society and lessen the influence of HAMAS.

[tblue37]

3. Go to the linked page to see drone footage of how destroyed Gaza is. It is a short video, but overwhelming

to see. We should all see it.

[dutch777]

4. From the brief I saw the Egypt plan is the only thing workable I have seen. Downside is Hamas will...

...remain a terrorist entity in Gaza even though it may not be allowed to be the government again. And given how Hezbollah has run end arounds on the Palestinian Authority elsewhere, I doubt the PA will be able to really control underground Hamas activity in Gaza. This whole thing and the number of innocents that have been killed on all sides just assures that the cycle of violence will just continue as a slow burn until the next major outburst.