Egypt to Hosts Emergency Arab Meeting on Palestine

SEAToday.com, Ankara - Egypt announced on Sunday (2/9) that it will host an emergency Arab summit on February 27 to discuss ongoing developments in the Palestinian territories.

As quoted by Turkish news agency Anadolu, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry stated in a report that the summit, which is scheduled to take place in the capital Cairo, was held after coordination with Bahrain as the current president of the Arab League.

The decision to organize the summit was taken after consultations and coordination by Egypt at the highest level with sister Arab states in recent days, including the State of Palestine which requested the meeting to discuss the latest and crucial developments related to the Palestinian cause, according to the statement.

Earlier on Thursday (2/6), Israeli authority leader Benjamin Netanyahu suggested that Palestinians should establish their state in Saudi Arabia rather than in their own homeland, dismissing any notion of Palestinian sovereignty.

“The Saudis can create a Palestinian state in Saudi Arabia, they have a lot of land there,” he said.

Saudi Arabia strongly condemned Netanyahu's statement on Sunday (2/9).

Earlier, on February 4, US President Donald Trump said Washington would take over Gaza and resettle Palestinians elsewhere under an extraordinary rebuilding plan that he claimed could turn the region into a “Middle East Riviera.”

The proposal was widely condemned by Palestinians, Arab states, as well as many other countries around the world, including Canada, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom.