Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty told US Secretary of State Marco Rubio that Arab states rejected US President Donald Trump’s widely condemned plan to displace Palestinians in Gaza and take control of the enclave, Reuters reports.
Egypt’s foreign ministry said Abdelatty, in a meeting in Washington, stressed the importance of expediting Gaza’s reconstruction while Palestinians remained there.
A statement by the US State Department after the meeting did not explicitly mention Trump’s plan but added that Rubio “reiterated the importance of close cooperation to advance post-conflict planning for the governance and security of Gaza and stressed Hamas can never govern Gaza or threaten Israel again.”