Sisi's meeting with Netanyahu bridges gaps of peace process

CAIRO- 19 September, 2017: Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi held talks Tuesday with the Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu at his- Sisi’s- residence in New York city where the Egyptian leader is scheduled to attend the United Nations General Assembly meeting.

Sisi' meeting with Netanyahu is his first with an Israeli official since coming into power in July 2014.

The talks tackled the latest developments in the Palestinian territories and efforts to resume the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks after the success of Egyptian efforts to achieve Palestinian reconciliation.

Earlier on Monday, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi met the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas following the reconciliation agreement between Fatah and Hamas.

Sisi and Abbas discussed during the meeting the Palestinian issue in all of its aspects, in addition to the current conditions the Middle East is going through, as well as the dangerous escalation in settlements in East Jerusalem and the rest of the Palestinian territories.

Earlier on Monday, a National Accord government has been formed and announced it will take on its duties in the Gaza strip within 24 hours after Hamas had dissolved its administrative committee, in light of achieving Egypt-brokered inter-Palestine reconciliation.

The move was met by international praise as part of efforts of inter-Palestine reconciliation. The movement affirmed that it would comply with the Social Reconciliation Accord signed with Fatah in 2011.