CAIRO, Dec 28 (Aswat Masriya) – Donations pledged during an international conference for Gaza's reconstruction remain unpaid due to the "international community’s lack of trust in a permanent solution to halted indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas," Egypt's foreign minister said on Sunday.

Foreign Minister Sameh Shukri told reporters that both parties lack the "sufficient political will" to resume the indirect negotiations, reported state-run news agency MENA.

Egypt announced on August 26 reaching a ceasefire agreement within the Gaza strip, ending a 50-day war between Israel and Gaza's ruling body Hamas that has left 2139 Palestinians killed and over 11,100 injured. On the Israeli side sixty-four soldiers and six civilians were killed.

Indirect negotiations between Israel and Palestinian factions, sponsored by Cairo, were scheduled to resume within a month after the start of the new Gaza ceasefire, as per the agreement.

The latest round of negotiations was postponed in October by Egypt, after a deadly militant attack in the Sinai Peninsula which left over 30 security personnel killed. 

The attack halted the arrival of a Palestinian delegation from Gaza, after the closure of the Rafah border-crossing connecting Gaza to Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.

“Palestinians are in dire need of reconstruction,” Shukri reportedly said. “Yet, this requires [the existence of] the basis and atmosphere necessary for the countries [which pledged donations] to meet their promises.”

In October, Egypt and Norway co-hosted an international donors conference on the reconstruction of the Strip in Cairo, raising around 5.4 billion dollars in donations. 

Shukri said that his Norwegian counterpart is scheduled to visit Egypt in January to meet with Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah to discuss means of collecting the promised donations.

The donors included the United States, which announced it will provide the strip with $212 million worth of aid, France, which pledged 4 million Euros ($5,051,589.36) of immediate aid to the strip, as well as 30 million Euros ($37,886,920.17) until 2017, and Italy, which announced it would donate 30 million Euros in cash and goods worth of an equal amount during the year 2015.

Gaza has been under a land, air and sea blockade enforced by Israel since 2007, after the Islamist group Hamas won the Palestinian legislative election and became in control of the strip. Egypt has mostly kept its border with Gaza closed since then.