It was before dawn in southern Gaza when Ahmad Shahada and his mother arrived at the European Hospital in Khan Younis. The avid football player was not there to seek treatment. He was there to wave goodbye.

Foreign ministers say proposal rejected by US and Israel and that does not significantly address Hamas 'shows a realistic path to the reconstruction of Gaza'

Arab League states approved an Egyptian proposal for a phased reconstruction plan that would keep Palestinians in Gaza while excluding Hamas from governing.

Leaders across the Middle East have come under significant pressure to come up with a workable blueprint for reconstructing, securing, and governing Gaza at a time when the Israel-Hamas ceasefire is teetering and Israel, buoyed by Trump’s backing, increasingly appears to hold the upper hand in negotiations.

Israel’s cutoff of food, fuel, medicine and other supplies to Gaza’s 2 million people has sent prices soaring and humanitarian groups into overdrive as they try to distribute dwindling stocks to the most vulnerable.

As Israel remains deadlocked with Hamas over key issues, Gaza’s future after the war ends appears no closer to a resolution.

Arab leaders meeting in Cairo on Tuesday endorsed a counterproposal to U.S. President Donald Trump’s call for the Gaza Strip to be depopulated of Palestinians and transformed into a beach destination, even as the continuation of the Israel-Hamas ceasefire is uncertain.

Jordan on Tuesday evacuated the first group of Palestinian children in need of medical treatment from the war-battered Gaza Strip under a plan the king presented to US President Donald Trump last month.

Arab foreign ministers are aiming to travel to Washington “within weeks” to present US President Donald Trump with a “solid” proposal to rebuild Gaza without displacing the Palestinian population, Jordanian official sources told CNN.

Arab leaders on Tuesday endorsed Egypt’s postwar plan for the Gaza Strip that would allow its roughly 2 million Palestinians to remain, in a counterproposal to US President Donald Trump’s plan to depopulate the territory and redevelop it as a beach destination.