Gaza Strikes
Egypt has received the first group of Russian nationals evacuated from the Gaza Strip amid the ongoing Israeli war, totaling 70 individuals, the Russian News Agency TASS reported on Monday.
The Arab-Islamic Extraordinary Summit has called for ending the Israeli siege on Gaza and urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate Israel’s war crimes against Palestinians.
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi received on Friday Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani at Cairo International Airport.
As he participated in the Paris conference on Gaza held on Thursday, Shoukry stated that the continued global silence on Israeli grave violations and breach of int'l humanitarian law reflects flawed standards and human conscience.
Egypt received on Tuesday 19 Palestinian people, who were injured by the Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip, for treatment in Egyptian hospitals.
Minister of Health Khaled Abdel Ghaffar said on Saturday that Egypt receives 40-50 injured Palestinians everyday and is capable to receive much more on a daily basis.
Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry described a concept paper issued by the Israeli Ministry of Intelligence as “ludicrous” in an interview with CNN that will be aired on Saturday.
The Egyptian Red Crescent (ERC) delivered on Friday the tenth shipment of urgent humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing, comprising 102 trucks.
Since the Israel-Hamas war erupted on 7 October, Egypt has moved more than 3,100 tons of food, medicine, medical supplies and other humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, North Sinai governorate said on Monday.
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi affirmed in a phone call with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday the need to find an urgent diplomatic solution to enforce immediate humanitarian truce in Gaza.
Egypt has warned of “grave dangers and unprecedented humanitarian and security repercussions” that will be caused by the Israeli large-scale ground attack in the Gaza Strip.
French President Emmanuel Macron praised the efforts that Egypt has made for the sake of people in Gaza, stressing France’s commitment to stand by these efforts.
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi said he discussed with French President Emmanuel Macron today the importance of working to prevent an Israeli ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, saying it would “claim scores of civilian lives.”
President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi reiterated on Monday Egypt’s rejection of the forced displacement of the Palestinian people from their lands as he received a delegation of US Senate members from the Democratic and Republican parties.
Ambassador Beth Jones, the United States Chargé d'Affaires, has praised Egypt’s efforts for a peaceful and stable Middle East as she attended the Cairo Peace Summit held on Saturday to discuss the crisis in Gaza.
Jordan’s King Abdullah II condemned the ongoing Israeli bombing campaign underway in Gaza as an act of “collective punishment” and a “war crime.”
Many trucks loaded with humanitarian aid have entered the Gaza Strip from Egypt on Saturday morning after two weeks of Israeli strikes that flattened homes and left hundreds of thousands of Palestinians homeless.
Scores of Egyptians in all governorates took to the streets on Friday to voice rejection of the Israeli aggression and schemes to relocate Gazans to Sinai.
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and King Abdullah of Jordan warned of the serious impact of the Israeli collective punishment policies in Gaza on regional security.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrived in Cairo on Thursday to hold talks with the political leadership.