Ammon News - The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Friday adopted the Arab League’s counter-proposal to US President Donald Trump’s plan to take over Gaza and displace its residents, two ministers told AFP.

The decision by the 57-member grouping came at an emergency meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, three days after the Arab League ratified the plan at a summit in Cairo.

The Egyptian-crafted alternative to Trump’s widely condemned takeover proposes to rebuild the Gaza Strip under the future administration of the Palestinian Authority.

“The emergency ministerial meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation adopted the Egyptian plan, which has now become an Arab-Islamic plan,” Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said, in comments echoed by his Sudanese counterpart.

“It is certainly a very positive thing,” Abdelatty said.

OIC Secretary-General Hissein Brahim Taha had given his backing to the Arab plan at the opening of the talks in Jeddah.

At Tuesday’s summit in Cairo, Arab leaders also announced a trust fund to pay for Gaza’s reconstruction and urged the international community to back it.