Egypt’s president called on the international community yesterday to adopt a plan to rebuild war-torn Gaza without displacing Palestinians after a proposal by US President Donald Trump angered Arabs with his own vision for the enclave.
“We stressed the importance of the international community adopting a plan to reconstruct the Gaza strip without displacing Palestinians – I repeat, without displacing Palestinians from their lands,” President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi told a Press conference with Spain’s prime minister in Madrid.
Sisi added that the UN Palestinian Refugee Agency (UNRWA), which provides aid, health and education services to millions in the Palestinian territories and neighbouring Arab countries of Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, was indispensable for Palestinians.
UNRWA said its operations in the Gaza Strip and West Bank will suffer after an Israeli law banned it in October on Israeli land – including East Jerusalem, which Israel annexed in a move not recognised internationally – and contact with Israeli authorities from January 30.
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