CAIRO – 6 November 2023: Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El Sisi received a phone call from President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen to discuss developments in Gaza.
Spokesperson for the Presidency, Ahmed Fahmy, said the phone call focused on developments in the Israeli military escalation in Gaza. President El-Sisi and President von der Leyen reviewed efforts underway to deliver the largest amount of humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza, given the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the Strip.
The President of the European Commission expressed appreciation for Egypt for its leading role in providing support to the people of Gaza during these difficult circumstances, and for facilitating the departure of a number of foreign nationals from the Strip.
President El-Sisi confirmed that Egypt’s unyielding and relentless efforts to coordinate international humanitarian relief are not substitute for the imperative need for an immediate ceasefire.
The President emphasized the international community’s political and moral responsibility to act in earnest and vigorously to protect the Palestinian civilians and stop the policies of collective punishment.
President Sisi reiterated Egypt’s unequivocal rejection of liquidating the Palestinian issue without a just solution, by displacing the Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Egypt. He affirmed the need to work toward achieving a state of calm so as to allow for the opening of a political track conducive to the two-state solution, that constitutes the only path toward just and lasting peace in the region.
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