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Arab leaders promise to work on the reconstruction of Gaza and again press for ceasefire

Arab leaders participate in the initial session of the 34th Arab League Summit at Baghdad, Iraq (AP)

Baghdad: At an annual summit in Baghdad, Arab leaders said on 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 region after the war stopped. In March, an emergency Arab League Summit in Cairo supported a plan for reconstruction of Gaza without displacing about 2 million inhabitants. Arab leaders attended the summit in Baghdad, including the rich Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al Thani of Qatar and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Among the guests were Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and United Nations Secretary -General Antonio Guterres, who called the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza and the flow of assistance in the surrounded area. He said that the United Nations rejects any “forcible displacement” of Palestinians. Saturday’s summit comes two months after a ceasefire ends with Hamas Militant Group in January. In recent times, Israel has launched extensive attacks in Gaza and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed another increase to carry forward his purpose of destroying Hamas. Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammad Shia al-Sudani said in a speech, “This genocide has not reached the level of ugliness not seen in all struggles throughout the history.” Al-Sudani said that Iraq would work on setting up an billion funds for the reconstruction of the region in which Baghdad would pay $ 20 million for Gaza and a similar amount for Lebanon. L-Sisi said that in coordination with Egypt, Qatar and America, “Gaza is increasing intensive efforts to reach a ceasefire”, saying that efforts were released by Israeli-American mortgage Aden Alexander. He said that Egypt has planned to organize an international conference to reconstruct Gaza “once the aggression stops.” Palestinian President Mahmood Abbas called Hamas to leave power in Gaza and hand over arms to the Palestinian Authority along with other terrorist groups. Hamas seized Gaza’s control from the Western-backed Palestinian Authority of Abbas in 2007, and repeated efforts to reconcile among the rivals. Baghdad met US President Donald Trump before a tour of the area in the first week. Trump’s visit did not start a deal for a new ceasefire in Gaza, as many people expected, but they made headlines by meeting with the new Syrian President Ahmed Al -Shara – who once fought against the US forces in Iraq – and promised to lift the US sanctions imposed on Syria. Al-Shra did not attend the summit in Baghdad, where the Syrian delegation was led by External Affairs Minister Asad al-Shabani. Iraqi Shia Milicia and political groups areware of Al-Shra’s past as a Sunni terrorist and pushed them back against their invitation at the summit. During the Syrian struggle, which began in March 2011, many Iraqi Shia Milsia fought with the forces of Syrian President Bashar Asad, making Al-Shara a specially sensitive person today. An Iraqi officer, speaking on the condition of anonymity, as he was not authorized to talk to the media, said that Iran’s Coods Force Commander Esmel Ghani paid the journey of Baghdad before the summit and “the messages of supporting Iranian-American talks to” reach a nuclear deal and lift the restrictions on Iran. “

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