Cairo announced on Wednesday its rejection of the circulating proposals regarding governance during the next phase in the Gaza Strip, the latest of which was the proposal for Egypt to take over the administration of the Gaza Strip for a period of time.

She stressed that these are "rejected and unacceptable proposals, as they are half-solutions that contribute to renewing the cycles of conflict instead of resolving it once and for all."

This came according to what was stated by the Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Tamim Khilaf, "in response to press inquiries about the circulating proposals regarding governance during the next phase in the Gaza Strip, the latest of which is the proposal for Egypt to take over the administration of the Gaza Strip for a period of time," according to what was reported by the official Egyptian news agency.

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman said, "Any proposals or arguments that circumvent the constants of the Egyptian and Arab position, and the sound foundations for dealing with the essence of the conflict, which relate to Israel's withdrawal from the occupied Palestinian territories and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state, are rejected and unacceptable, as they are half-solutions that contribute to renewing the cycles of the conflict instead of settling it once and for all."

He stressed the "organic connection between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, as Palestinian lands that represent the territory of the independent Palestinian state, and must be subject to full Palestinian sovereignty and administration."

On Tuesday, Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid proposed that Egypt take over the administration of the neighboring Palestinian Gaza Strip for 15 years, in exchange for canceling its foreign debts.

Lapid announced his proposal in a speech he gave at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) research center in Washington, according to the Hebrew newspaper Maariv, and then followed it with a post on the X platform.

The Israeli opposition leader wrote: “A short while ago, I presented in Washington a plan for the day after the war in Gaza. The core of the plan is that Egypt will take responsibility for Gaza for 15 years, and at the same time the international community will cancel its foreign debt of $155 billion.”

Lapid added that during the 15 years, "Gaza will be rebuilt and conditions will be prepared for self-rule, and Egypt will be the central player and will supervise the reconstruction, which will further strengthen its economy."

He believed that "this solution has a historical precedent: Egypt took control of Gaza in the past, and this was done with the support of the Arab League, with the understanding that this was a temporary situation (...) and this is what must happen again today."

Egypt was legally responsible for the Gaza Strip for most of the period between 1948 and 1967. This began when Israel was established on Palestinian lands occupied by armed Zionist gangs that committed massacres and displaced hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.

Hamas had previously announced its rejection of disarming the Palestinian factions or removing them from Gaza, stressing that any arrangements for the future of the Strip would be based on Palestinian "national consensus."