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Charlie Moloney

Middle East crisis: Arab leaders consider Egypt’s plans to clear rubble and bombs and rebuild Gaza Strip – as it happened

Donald Trump Gaza United States Hamas Benjamin Netanyahu Arab League Israel Steve Witkoff
Palestinians in the Nuseirat refugee camp continue their daily lives among the rubble of destroyed buildings.
Palestinians in the Nuseirat refugee camp continue their daily lives among the rubble of destroyed buildings. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

Here is a summary of today's events

  • United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday he supported an Arab-led initiative to mobilise support for reconstruction of the Gaza Strip. Egypt presented a plan for reconstruction of the Palestinian enclave on Tuesday at an Arab League summit in Cairo. The plan, seen by Reuters, aims to counter U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal to build a Middle East “Riviera” in the Gaza Strip.

  • More details emerged of Egypt’s plan for rebuilding the Gaza Strip. The plan, published today, sets out proposals to rebuild the area by 2030 without removing its population. Hundreds of thousands of temporary housing units would be set up where Gaza’s population could live while reconstruction takes place. The rubble would be recycled, and some of it would be used as infill to create expanded lands on Gaza’s Mediterranean coast. It also calls for opening an airport, a fishing port and a commercial port.

  • Israel’s top diplomat charged Tuesday that humanitarian aid had become the “number one source of revenue” for Hamas, as he defended his government’s decision to block all deliveries to Gaza.

  • Lebanese official media said an Israeli strike on a vehicle in the south on Tuesday killed one person, the latest deadly raid amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.

  • Hamas leader Sami Abu Zuhri told AFP Tuesday that disarming is a red line for his movement and other Palestinian militant groups in negotiations to extend the fragile Gaza ceasefire.

  • Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who supports the annexation of the occupied West Bank, said on Tuesday that he was travelling to the United States for a brief visit.

UN secretary general supports Arab-led initiative for Gaza reconstruction

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday he supported an Arab-led initiative to mobilise support for reconstruction of the Gaza Strip.

Egypt presented a plan for reconstruction of the Palestinian enclave on Tuesday at an Arab League summit in Cairo. The plan, seen by Reuters, aims to counter U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal to build a Middle East “Riviera” in the Gaza Strip.

Speaking at the Cairo summit, Guterres also called for the resumption “without delay” of negotiations on continuing a ceasefire in Gaza, and he expressed concern over an escalation of violence in the West Bank.

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