This comes as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called for the implementation of the second phase of Trump’s plan, demanding during a phone call with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz a complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza according to the plan, which includes 20 points to end the war.
Abbas said the priority is to stop the bloodshed, alleviate the suffering of the Palestinians, and prevent forced displacement, stressing his commitment to recognizing Israel and the two-state solution in accordance with international law.
For his part, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdel-Aty said during the Doha Forum that Egypt will not rule Gaza and that no foreign country will rule it, stressing that the Palestinians will manage their own affairs.
He also spoke of a plan to form a Palestinian technocratic government under the supervision of a peace council led by Trump, with a call to deploy an international peacekeeping force on what is known as the "yellow line," at a time when Israeli media spoke of a mid-January date for the start of the deployment of the so-called "international stabilization force" in Gaza
On November 18, the UN Security Council adopted a US draft resolution on ending Israel’s war on Gaza and establishing a temporary international force until the end of 2027.
The "yellow line" is an imaginary line separating the areas occupied and where the Israeli army is deployed in Gaza from those where it is not. This line is stipulated in the first phase of the ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel, according to the Trump plan, which came into effect on October 10th.
Israel violates the agreement daily with airstrikes that have killed 367 Palestinians and wounded 953, according to the Gaza Health Ministry on Saturday. Also violating the agreement, Israel prevents the entry of sufficient food and medical supplies into Gaza, where some 2.4 million Palestinians are suffering dire conditions.
Regarding the land border crossing between Egypt and the besieged Gaza Strip, Abdel-Aati said: "We will not allow the Rafah crossing to be used to displace Palestinians."
Days earlier, Cairo denied the validity of Israel's announcement of joint coordination with Egypt to reopen the Rafah crossing for those wishing to leave Gaza.
Egypt stated that no such coordination had taken place, and that if an agreement were reached to reopen the crossing, it would be in both directions. During the war on Gaza, Cairo rejected an Israeli-American plan to forcibly displace Palestinians from Gaza, particularly to Egypt, warning against the liquidation of the Palestinian cause.
For two years, with American support, Israel committed genocide in Gaza, leaving more than 70,000 Palestinian martyrs and 170,000 wounded, most of them children and women
Israel was established in 1948 on occupied Palestinian land, then occupied the rest of the Palestinian territories, and refuses to withdraw and allow the establishment of an independent, sovereign Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.
