The United Arab Emirates’ ambassador to the United Nations has said that there must be an “irreversible progression” towards a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict for a regional commitment to the reconstruction of Gaza.

Lana Nusseibeh said there was “a very strong” Arab consensus that such progress was needed for any contributions towards reconstruction in Gaza once the devastating conflict between Israel and Hamas is over.

“We cannot keep refunding and then see everything that we have built destroyed,” she said at the World Government Summit in Dubai.

“There must be an irreversible progression to the two-state solution for regional partners to be on board with the reconstruction part… and that has to be something that has international guardrails and benchmarks and it has to have the support of the United States amongst other key actors,” she said.