Cairo: 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.

According to State Information Service Egypt, Egypt coordinated with the Kingdom of Bahrain, the current president of the Arab Summit, and the General Secretariat of the League of Arab States to host the summit. Extensive consultations have also been held with Arab nations, including the State of Palestine, which requested the summit.

Over recent days, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty engaged in a series of phone calls with several Arab counterparts to gather regional efforts to oppose the US proposal of displacing the Palestinian people. Acting on directives from President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, Abdelatty contacted 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 discussed the latest developments of the Palestinian issue and the dire conditions in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, as stated 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 proposing to move Palestinians elsewhere. At a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on February 4, Trump suggested that the US will transform Gaza into a development project that could become ‘the Riviera of the Middle East.’

The US president also asserted that his country will forcibly displace Palestinians from their lands in Gaza and the West Bank to Egypt and Jordan, despite rejections from both Egyptian and Jordanian authorities.