Egypt to Host Emergency Arab Summit on Palestinian Issue

CAIRO – 9 February 2025: Egypt will host an emergency Arab summit on February 27, 2025, in Cairo to address the recent and escalating developments in the Palestinian issue, announced Egypt’s Foreign Ministry in a statement on Sunday.

To host the summit, Egypt coordinated with the Kingdom of Bahrain, the current president of the Arab Summit, and the General Secretariat of the League of Arab States. 

Egypt has also been in extensive consultation with Arab nations, including the State of Palestine, which requested the summit, the statement added.

Over the past few days, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty made a series of phone calls with several Arab counterparts to mass regional efforts in a bid to thwart the US proposal of displacing the Palestinian people.

Upon directives from President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, Abdelatty phoned the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, the Sultanate of Oman, Bahrain, Jordan, Iraq, Algeria, Tunisia, Mauritania, and Sudan. 

The Arab foreign ministers addressed the latest developments of the Palestinian issue and the catastrophic conditions in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, according to a statement released by the Egyptian Foreign Ministry on Friday.

Last week, US President Donald Trump unveiled plans for the US to “take over” and “own” the Gaza Strip “long-term to develop it”, while moving Palestinians elsewhere.

At a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on February 4, Trump asserted that the US will turn Gaza into a development project that could be “the Riviera of the Middle East.”

The US president also insisted that his country will forcibly displace the Palestinians out of their lands of Gaza and West Bank to Egypt and Jordan, despite Egyptian and Jordanian rejections.

Additional reporting by Amr Mohamed Kandil