Gaza plan criticized by US and Israel gets European support

A $53 cardinal Arab-backed program for the reconstruction of Gaza has garnered enactment from France, Germany, Italy and the U.K., aft receiving pushback from the U.S. and Israel. 

"The program shows a realistic way to the reconstruction of Gaza and promises – if implemented – swift and sustainable betterment of the catastrophic surviving conditions for the Palestinians surviving successful Gaza," the overseas ministers wrote successful a associated statement. 

The overseas ministers called for a post-war program based connected "a coagulated governmental and information framework," but reiterated the request for Hamas to not beryllium capable to govern Gaza. Additionally, the European leaders said that they are supportive of the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) "central role" successful a post-war Gaza and "the implementation of its betterment agenda."

Palestinians locomotion done the demolition caused by the Israeli aerial and crushed violative successful Jabalia exile campy successful the bluish Gaza Strip connected Feb. 12, 2025, connected a rainy day. (Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

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The $53 cardinal Egyptian program was meant arsenic a antagonistic to President Donald Trump’s U.S. takeover thought and comes aft Cairo rejected the thought of accepting displaced Gazans for "national security" reasons. While Trump’s program would resettle Palestinians extracurricular the Strip, Egypt’s connection focuses connected Palestinian-led reconstruction efforts. 

Both the U.S. and Israel person rejected the Arab-backed program for Gaza reconstruction. Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Oren Marmorstein said successful a connection that the program "fails to code the realities of the concern pursuing October 7th, 2023, remaining rooted successful outdated perspectives."

Destroyed buildings are pictured successful the westbound of Beit Lahia successful the bluish Gaza Strip connected Feb. 11, 2025 amid the existent ceasefire woody successful the warfare betwixt Israel and Hamas. (BASHAR TALEB/AFP via Getty Images)

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Marmorstein’s connection besides criticized the program for its reliance connected the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). He says that some the PA and UNRWA "have repeatedly demonstrated corruption, enactment for terrorism, and nonaccomplishment successful resolving the issue."

While U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff called the program a "good religion archetypal step," State Department Spokesperson Tammy Bruce told reporters that it "does not fulfill the requirements, the quality of what President Trump is asking for."

Additionally, National Security Council spokesperson Brian Hughes expressed concerns astir the program successful a connection provided to Fox News Digital.

"The existent connection does not code the world that Gaza is presently uninhabitable, and residents cannot humanely unrecorded successful a territory covered successful debris and unexploded ordnance. President Trump stands by his imaginativeness to rebuild Gaza escaped from Hamas."

President Donald Trump looks to the close adjacent to a photograph of rubble successful Gaza. (AP Photo/Morry Gash, Adel Hana)

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Trump received dense disapproval past period erstwhile helium suggested the U.S. instrumentality implicit Gaza during a property league with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netnayahu. Trump’s connection would impact the relocation of Palestinians and turning the enclave into the "Riviera of the Middle East." 

Fox News’ Efrat Lachter contributed to this report.