Trumps Vorstoß, Golf solle den Wiederaufbau im Gazastreifen bezahlen, stößt auf Hürden

>When US President Donald Trump spoke in Israel’s parliament ahead of the signing of his Gaza peace plan this month, he thanked “Arab and Muslim nations” in advance for [pledging](https://www.timesofisrael.com/full-text-of-trumps-knesset-speech-youve-won-you-cant-beat-the-world-its-time-for-peace/) “tremendous amounts of money” to rebuild the devastated Palestinian territory. That appeared to resolve the question — to the US leader at least — of how to find the $70 billion [the United Nations says](https://www.un.org/unispal/document/unog-press-briefing-14oct25/) is needed to reconstruct the territory destroyed by Israel’s two-year military campaign against Hamas. But persuading the likes of Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to hand over the funds is unlikely to be as easy as Trump claimed. While the deep-pocketed and energy-rich trio worked on and enthusiastically endorsed [the peace plan](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-29/full-text-read-trump-s-plan-for-ending-israel-hamas-war-in-gaza), all three have specific reservations about unconditionally providing financing, according to several people with knowledge of the thinking of Gulf officials.

>“In my experience, it’s easy to pledge funding, but realizing it and putting up the money is something else,” said Ibrahim Saif, a former Jordanian energy and planning minister who now works as a consultant in the country. Egypt is hosting an international Gaza reconstruction conference next month and Gulf states will be among the lead participants, bringing the issue of reconstruction funding to the fore. In the meantime, other postwar concerns, such as whether or not Israel will abide by the deal and Hamas disarm, are taking precedence among officials overseeing the early weeks of a sometimes fragile truce. Saudi Arabia, which rallied Arab and Muslim states to push for a ceasefire and spearheaded efforts along with France to win more international recognition for [Palestinian statehood](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-22/is-palestine-a-state-what-does-it-mean-to-recognize-palestinian-statehood), is constrained in terms of what it can commit financially to Gaza, said the people, who asked not to be identified in order to speak freely. This is mainly a function of lower oil prices, which have fallen more than 10% this year, leading the kingdom to cut back on several major projects associated with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s economic transformation plan. Plus, Saudi Arabia has ended a long tradition of grant-giving.

>Riyadh “is allergic to writing blank checks given decades of corruption and misuse by recipients across the Arab and Muslim world,” said Ali Shihabi, a Saudi author and commentator close to the royal court. Saudi Arabia is expected to lean on fellow Gulf states like Qatar and the UAE, and possibly Kuwait, who it sees as having more liquidity, to provide the lion’s share of Gaza funding, said three people briefed on the Saudi leadership’s current deliberations. But the UAE is hesitant to allocate significant funds to Gaza before it sees “political clarity on where this is going,” operational and security arrangements on the ground and “a longer term view” toward the establishment of a Palestinian state, Anwar Gargash, a diplomatic adviser to President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, said[ at an event](https://www.thenationalnews.com/video/hsE0JLcH/uae-leveraged-relations-with-israel-to-get-25bn-of-aid-into-gaza-says-gargash/) last week.

>Abu Dhabi wants to first see the full disarmament of Hamas and its exclusion from any future governance role of Gaza as well as a complete overhaul of the Palestinian Authority, according to a senior UAE official. Qatar, which has hosted Hamas officials in Doha for more than a decade and been a key mediator in Gaza peace negotiations, is focused on making sure Israel will implement its part of the peace deal before it puts any money into rebuilding the territory, according to people with knowledge of Doha’s thinking. Qatar and other Arab states accept the exclusion of Hamas from the temporary leadership of Gaza as stated in Trump’s plan, which they all supported. Still, some officials from the region argue it’s impossible to fully exclude Hamas from Palestinian political life and a more realistic option is to consider what role a reformed entity might have in the future, according to a senior Arab official involved in the crafting of Trump’s plan. The Saudi, Qatari and UAE governments didn’t respond to requests for comment for the article. Hamas’s involvement on any level is a red line for Israel and the US, and there’s no sign of them changing their stance given the brutality of the group’s attack on Israel in October 2023.

Trump, you never learn. You tried to get the Saudis to stump up cash for „The Abraham Accords“…remember that waste of paper?…and they stiffed you then. What makes you think they will come through this time?