Arab leaders approve $53bn alternative to Trump's Gaza plan [View all]

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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