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The displacement of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip is a “red line” and Cairo will not allow any party to risk Egypt’s national security or sovereignty, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said on Monday.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Bader Abdelattay said on Monday that his Qatari counterpart Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani arrived in Cairo and joined talks on restarting ceasefire negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
Israel did not openly reject Egyptian-Qatari ceasefire proposal, as mediators await Tel Aviv’s official response - Anadolu Ajansı
CNN’s Becky Anderson went to the Rafah border crossing near Gaza, where the Egyptian Red Crescent showed her a warehouse full of medical supplies that were refused entry by Israel, just kilometers away from the Palestinians who desperately need them.
At the Rafah crossing into the Gaza Strip, hundreds of aid trucks sat unmoving in the Egyptian desert, stuck for days with only a handful allowed through by Israel to relieve the humanitarian disaster across the border.
The companies operating Israel’s biggest gas field agreed to supply fuel worth $35 billion to Egypt over the next decade and a half, the latest sign of the North African country’s dependence on imports for the long haul.
Israel's Leviathan natural gas field has signed the largest export agreement in the country's history, worth up to $35 billion to supply gas to Egypt, NewMed , one of the partners in the field, said on Thursday.
Military official tells MEE Egyptian army is on ‘the highest state of alert we’ve seen in years’ as Israel prepares to occupy Gaza