Egyptian Foreign Minister, Badr Abdelatty has said that his country is working to convince Hamas to support Trump’s Gaza plan.
Abdelatty said during an event in France, “We are meeting with them.”
“We are coordinating with our brothers in Qatar and also our colleagues in Turkiye, in order to, you know, convince Hamas to respond positively with this plan.”
Badr Abdelatty
Also, Abdelatty said that Cairo will not allow Palestinians to be displaced from the Gaza Strip “under any circumstances.”
“Displacement will not happen. It will not happen because displacement means the end of the Palestinian cause. We will not allow this to happen under any circumstances.”
Badr Abdelatty
Israel has been pushing to displace Palestinians from Gaza City and other areas as part of what observers said is a plan to ethnically cleanse and seize control of the territory.
Israel has threatened that any Palestinians who remain in Gaza City will be defined as “terrorists or terror supporters.”
Philippe Lazzarini, Head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), condemned that announcement as an ominous signal that anyone who cannot or will not leave the area will be targeted by the Israeli military.
“Labeling the nearly 250,000 people currently trapped in Gaza City and the north as ‘terrorists or terror supporters’ by the Government of Israel is a statement suggesting planned large scale massacres: killing more women, children, elderly and vulnerable people unable to move out.”
Philippe Lazzarini
He stressed that no one has the license to kill civilians. He added, “Ongoing international crimes in Gaza cannot continue to be implicitly tolerated.”
He noted that more inaction will lead to more complicity to what the UN Commission of Inquiry has already concluded is genocide, adding, “Time to act.”
Separately, French Foreign Minister, Jean-Noel Barrot said that the Palestinian group, which is studying Trump’s Gaza proposal, “has lost” and must surrender.
The 20-point US plan says Hamas must have no role in the future governance of Gaza, which will undergo a “demilitarisation” process.
Hamas members who commit to peaceful co-existence and to decommission their weapons will be given amnesty, the plan also states, while members of Hamas who wish to leave Gaza will be provided safe passage to receiving countries.
Hamas Expected To Accept Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan
White House Press Secretary, Karoline Leavitt stated that the US President, Donald Trump expects Hamas to accept his Gaza proposal, and could impose consequences if the group does not do so.
Since Israel’s war on Gaza began nearly two years ago, the US has often pushed Israel-backed proposals unlikely to garner Palestinian support and then blamed Hamas as the primary obstacle to ending the conflict.
Leavitt said in an interview, “It’s a red line that the President of the United States is going to have to draw, and I’m confident that he will.”
On Tuesday, Trump said he was giving Hamas “three or four days” to respond to his Gaza plan.
Leavitt has described Trump’s plan as “acceptable and we hope and we expect Hamas should accept this plan.”
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