Rumors of Shoukry, Blinken call on registering patients, students wishing to leave Gaza denied as 'baseless'

CAIRO - 24 June 2024: The official spokesman for the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ambassador Ahmed Abu Zeid denied Monday what is being circulated on some social media regarding a phone call between the foreign ministers of Egypt and the United States regarding arrangements to register lists of patients and students wishing to leave the Gaza Strip.

Abou Zeid stressed that what is being circulated is baseless in form and content.

"No contact has taken place, and it is not true that there are any arrangements of this kind," according to what he confirmed via a post he published on his account on “X” platform.