Arab leaders met in Riyadh on Friday to craft a plan for Gaza’s post-war reconstruction to counter Donald Trump’s proposal for the United States to take over the territory without its Palestinian inhabitants.
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Trump’s plan has united Arab states in opposition to it, but disagreements remain over who should govern Gaza and how its reconstruction can be funded.
An image published on Saudi state television showed the kingdom’s de facto leader Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman with the leaders of other Gulf Arab states, Egypt and Jordan.
A source close to the Saudi government confirmed the meeting had finished but the hosts did not immediately publish a final statement.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s office said he had left the Saudi capital after the meeting with the leaders of Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
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A Saudi source had earlier said that the Palestinian Authority, Hamas’s West Bank-based rival, was also expected to take part in the talks.