Egypt’s el-Sisi says Gaza reconstruction should happen ‘without displacement’
The Egyptian president has made the comments during a phone call with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, according to a statement from his office.
Abdel Fattah el-Sisi “stressed the necessity of starting the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip … without displacing Palestinians and in a way that ensures the preservation of their rights … to live on their land”, said the statement.
Egypt, which signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1979, is under pressure from Trump to take in Palestinians forcibly displaced from Gaza, a plan el-Sisi has flatly rejected.
The US president has said he could “conceivably” cut aid to Egypt if it refuses to comply.
Trump plan for Gaza a ‘serious crime’ that is bound to fail, Syria’s al-Sharaa says
Syria’s transitional President Ahmed al-Sharaa has said Donald Trump’s plan to displace Palestinians and take over Gaza is a “serious crime that will ultimately fail”.
“I believe no power can drive people from their land. Many countries have tried to do it and they have all failed, especially during the recent war in Gaza over the past year and a half,” the leader of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group said in an interview with a British podcast.
“Over 80 years of this conflict, all attempts to displace them have failed; those who left have regretted their decision. The Palestinian lesson that every generation has learned is the importance of holding on to their land.”
This comes as Israel’s Army Radio reported earlier today that the Israeli military aims to indefinitely maintain a “large force presence” in Syria, and there are currently three brigades operating there.
The outlet said nine military sites are already in “advanced stages of construction” in the military zone created by Israel on Syrian territory, and infrastructure that has been completed there includes living quarters with amenities for soldiers.
Yemen’s Houthis ready to attack Israel if war on Gaza resumes, leader says
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis, who control most of western Yemen, including the capital, are ready to launch attacks on Israel if it resumes its war on Gaza and does not commit to the ceasefire, the group’s leader, Abdel-Malik al-Houthi, says in a televised speech.
Houthi leader Abdel-Malik al-Houthi has directly addressed the US president during another defiant televised speech.
“You fool! Do you believe that the honourable Palestinians after all of their resistance against the bombardment and after their sacrifices, they will just sell their homeland to you? Who is going to sell this land to you?” he asked.
The Yemeni leader warned that “our fingers are on the trigger” to inflict pain on Israel and the US if the first and second phases of the Gaza ceasefire are not honoured.
Referring to Trump’s plan to ethnically cleanse Palestinians and Netanyahu’s suggestion to displace Palestinians to Saudi Arabia, al-Houthi warned that a “destructive American-Zionist plot” is looming over the region.
“This plan is after confiscating what is holy to Islam and wants to take over not only the Al-Aqsa Mosque but also Mecca and Medina.”
