France, March 8 -- France, Britain, Germany and Italy have said the Arab-backed plan to reconstruct Gaza and avoid displacing Palestinians from the terrritory is a "realistic path".

The $53 billion plan, put forward by the Arab League, was formally adopted on Saturday by the 57-member Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) at an emergency meeting in Saudi Arabia.

TheEgyptian-crafted proposalis an alternative to US President Donald Trump's planto turn the Gaza Strip into a "Middle East Riviera", displacing its 2.4 million inhabitants.

On Saturday, the foreign mnisters of France, Germany, Italy and Britain welcomed the five-year Egyptian plan, saying it promised "swift and sustainable improvement of the catastrophic living conditions"...