Arab leaders meeting in Baghdad said Saturday that they were trying to reach a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip and promised to contribute to the reconstruction of the Palestinian\u2019s enclave once the war stops.<\/p>\n
In March, an emergency Arab League summit in Cairo endorsed a plan for Gaza’s reconstruction without displacing its roughly 2 million residents.<\/p>\n
Among the guests at Saturday\u2019s summit were Spanish Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez and UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, who called for the flow of aid into the besieged territory. He said that the UN rejects any \u201cforced displacement\u201d of Palestinians.<\/p>\n
The \u201cgenocide\u201d in Gaza \u201chas reached levels of ugliness not seen in all conflicts throughout history,\u201d Iraq\u2019s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani said in a speech that called for allowing aid to flow into Gaza. Al-Sudani added that Iraq will work on setting up an Arab fund for the reconstruction of the region in which Baghdad will pay $20 million for Gaza and a similar amount for Lebanon.<\/p>\n
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi said that Egypt, in coordination with Qatar and the US, is \u201cexerting intense efforts to reach a ceasefire\u201d in Gaza, adding that the efforts led to the release of Israel-American hostage Edan Alexander. He said that Egypt plans to hold an international conference for the reconstruction of Gaza \u201conce the aggression stops.\u201d<\/p>\n
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on Hamas to abandon power in Gaza and along with other militant groups to hand over weapons to the Palestinian Authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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