Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have stated that they will not fund the rebuilding of Gaza until it is agreed that Hamas will not operate within the Gaza Strip. As we read in Haaretz:

According to Jordanian sources, Riyadh and Abu Dhabi are conditioning their participation in Gaza’s reconstruction on Hamas’ disarming and being barred from operating in the Strip as an organization or movement. This condition does not appear in Trump’s plan, which, while requiring the organization to disarm and not participate in Gaza’s governance, allows it to continue in the Strip as a political movement and even participate in future elections.

Egypt disagrees with Saudi Arabia and the UAE and wants Hamas to be allowed to operate within Gaza. Trump’s administration has directly negotiated with Hamas, and Turkey and Qatar also want to allow for Hamas to work within the Strip:

The agreement of Egypt, Qatar and Turkey; the backing Trump gave to a formula that Saudi Arabia considered “flexible” and “lenient toward Hamas” and the fact that Trump authorized his representatives to negotiate directly with the organization’s leadership now present Riyadh and Abu Dhabi with a dilemma that could affect their willingness to participate in the plan’s execution.

Twenty countries participated in the peace summit in Egypt, but only four countries signed the Trump Declaration for Enduring Peace and Prosperity: Egypt, Qatar, Turkey and the United States. Haaretz reports:

Although about 20 countries participated in the Sharm el-Sheikh conference, only four of them – Egypt, Qatar, Turkey and the United States – signed the Trump Declaration for Enduring Peace and Prosperity at the summit.

But Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, which did not sign, are the two pillars that, according to Trump, promised to serving as ATMs to fund the new civil administration that will be established in Gaza, the police forces that are already undergoing training in Egypt and Jordan and the Strip’s subsequent reconstruction.

The word “peace” appears 13 times in the short statement, but it does not specify the sums needed to implement the plan nor does it identify which countries will contribute them. What is not in doubt is that without the enormous funding that is required – estimated at over $53 billion in February and over $70 billion now – the anticipated peace in Gaza and from there to the entire Middle East could remain on the long table that remained empty after the conference.