Arab countries who were swift to reject President Donald Trump's plan for the US to take control of the Gaza Strip and resettle Palestinians are scrambling to agree on a diplomatic offensive to counter the idea.
Trump's plan, announced on February 4 during a fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, has infuriated Palestinians and Arab countries and upended decades of US diplomacy focused on a two-state solution.
The Egyptian counter reconstruction plan, according to Abdelatty, will not be purely Egyptian or Arab but will gain international support and funding to ensure its successful implementation.
"We will hold intensive talks with major donor countries once the plan is adopted at the upcoming Arab Summit," Abdelatty said in a presser with the European Union Commissioner for the Mediterranean Dubravka Šuica.
The summit will take place on Tuesday in Egypt.
Abdelatty said role of European countries, especially in the economic aspect of rebuilding the war-torn enclave, is critical.
Asked about the second phase of the ceasefire deal, Abdelatty said Egypt will continue its intensive efforts to ensure the ceasefire is maintained and negotiations for the second phase can begin.
He stressed the importance of safely executing the ceasefire agreement signed in January, emphasising its commitment to ensuring its proper implementation.
"The first phase has concluded successfully and now we must shift to discussions on the second phase, which is key to sustaining the ceasefire," he said.
"Naturally, it will be difficult but with goodwill and political determination, it can be achieved."
Abdelatty said that following the emergency Arab Summit, there will be an urgent ministerial meeting in Saudi Arabia for the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, where foreign ministers will push for the summit's outcomes to be presented globally.
"We will ensure that the results of the Arab summit are presented to the world in the best possible way," Abdelatty added.
Israel blocked the entry of aid trucks into the Gaza Strip on Sunday as a stand-off over the truce that has halted fighting for the past six weeks escalated.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said earlier that it had adopted a proposal by Trump's envoy, Steve Witkoff, for a temporary ceasefire in the enclave for the Ramadan and Passover periods, hours after the first phase of the previously agreed ceasefire expired.
If agreed, the truce would halt fighting until the end of the Ramadan fasting period about March 31 and the Jewish Passover holiday about April 20.
The truce would be conditional on Hamas releasing half of the living and dead hostages on the first day, with the remainder released at the conclusion, if an agreement is reached on a permanent ceasefire.
There are wide gaps on key areas regarding a permanent end to the war, including what form a postwar administration of the Gaza Strip would take and what future there would be for Hamas, which triggered Israel's invasion of the enclave with its attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023.
The attack killed 1200 people, in the worst one-day loss of life in Israel's history, and resulted in 251 people being taken into the Gaza Strip as hostages.
The Israeli campaign has killed more than 48,000 Palestinians, displaced almost all of its 2.3 million population and left the Gaza Strip a wasteland.
