UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said he will join an emergency meeting of the Arab League in Cairo next week to discuss the reconstruction of Gaza, as Arab states weigh a post-war plan for the Palestinian enclave to counter US President Donald Trump’s proposal, Reuters reports.

Guterres said Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, must be treated as one and governed by a Palestinian government.

He said Gaza needed to remain “an independent, democratic and sovereign Palestinian state, with no reductions in its territory or forced transfer of its population.”