Foreign ministers from Muslim nations on Saturday rejected calls by U.S. President Donald Trump to empty the Gaza Strip of its Palestinian population and backed a plan for an administrative committee of Palestinians to govern the territory to allow reconstruction to go ahead.

Foreign ministers from Muslim nations are rejecting calls by U.S. President Donald Trump to empty the Gaza Strip of its Palestinian population.

Trump has said he wants to relocate Gaza's population to other countries so that the US can rebuild it as a "Riviera of the Middle East."

After over a month of deploying every means at their disposal to sabotage and collapse the cease-fire agreement with Palestinian resistance forces led by Hamas, Israel — under Benjamin Netanyahu’s government — has once again refused to proceed with the next stage of agreed negotiations,

The announcement signaled a breakdown in the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal, the first phase of which expired Saturday with no clear next steps.

Over 50 former hostages from Gaza have urged Prime Minister Netanyahu to agree to a complete ceasefire to free the remaining captives. "We who have experienced the inferno know that a return to war is life-threatening for those still left behind" - was written in an open letter published on Instagram.