{"id":27204,"date":"2025-02-15T08:07:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T08:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=27204"},"modified":"2025-02-15T08:07:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T08:07:14","slug":"arab-leaders-to-gather-in-saudi-arabia-amid-trumps-proposal-to-takeover-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2025\/02\/arab-leaders-to-gather-in-saudi-arabia-amid-trumps-proposal-to-takeover-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Arab leaders to gather in Saudi Arabia amid Trump\u2019s proposal to takeover Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; Saudi Arabia is spearheading urgent Arab efforts to develop a plan for Gaza\u2019s future as a counter to US President Donald Trump\u2019s ambition\u00a0for a Middle East Riviera cleared of its Palestinian inhabitants, sources said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"template__main  flow-root  px-1 w-full sm:w-2\/3 mx-auto md:min-w-183\">\n<div class=\"story__content  overflow-hidden    text-4  sm:text-4.5        pt-1  mt-1\" dir=\"auto\">\n<p>Meanwhile, Hamas on Friday said Israel is expected to release 369 Palestinians in exchange for three Israeli prisoners on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia will host the leaders of four Arab countries on Feb 20 to discuss Trump\u2019s proposal for a US takeover of Gaza, a source said.<\/p>\n<p>The leaders of Egypt, Jordan, Qatar and the UAE will attend the summit, to take place ahead of an Arab League meeting in Cairo one week later on the same issue. Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas may also attend.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\"><\/figure>\n<p>Draft ideas will be discussed at the Feb 20 meeting in Riyadh. Proposals may involve a Gulf-led reconstruction fund and a deal to sideline Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>Trump sparked a\u00a0global outcry\u00a0with his proposal for the US to \u201ctake over\u201d the Gaza Strip. Arab countries have come together in a rare united front, outraged by the idea of displacing the Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>For Palestinians, any forced displacement evokes memories of the \u201cNakba\u201d, or catastrophe \u2014 the mass displacement of their ancestors during Israel\u2019s creation in 1948.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reuters<\/em>\u00a0spoke to 15 sources in Saudi Arabia, Egypt,\u00a0Jordan\u00a0and elsewhere to build a picture of the hurried efforts by Arab states to pull together existing proposals into a new plan they can sell to the US president.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\"><\/figure>\n<p>All the sources declined to be identified.<\/p>\n<p>One Arab government source said at least four proposals had already been drafted for Gaza\u2019s future, but an Egyptian proposal was now emerging as central to the Arab push for an alternative to Trump\u2019s idea.<\/p>\n<p>The Egyptian proposal involves forming a national Palestinian committee to govern Gaza without Hamas involvement, international participation in reconstruction without displacing the Palestinians, and movement towards a two-state solution, three Egyptian security sources said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are telling the Americans we have a plan that works. Our meeting with MbS is going to be critical. He is taking the lead,\u201d said a Jordanian official.<\/p>\n<p>The White House did not respond to several requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Palestinian gro\u00adups in Gaza said they would release hostages Iair Horn, US-Israeli Sagui Dekel-Chen and Russian-Israeli Alexandre Sasha Trou\u00adfanov on Saturday, in accordance with the ceasefire agreement.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas said Israel was expected to release 369 Palestinian prisoners in exchange.<\/p>\n<p><i>Source Reuters<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; Saudi Arabia is spearheading urgent Arab efforts to develop a plan for Gaza\u2019s future as a counter to US President Donald Trump\u2019s ambition\u00a0for a Middle East Riviera cleared of its Palestinian inhabitants, sources said. Meanwhile, Hamas on Friday said Israel is expected to release 369 Palestinians in exchange for three Israeli prisoners [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":27205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,194,338,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-world","category-middle-east","category-headline"],"views":55,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27206,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27204\/revisions\/27206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}