Video: Egypt's mandate to end Palestine-Israel crisis

CAIRO – 20 September 2017: President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi intensified diplomatic talks regarding the revival of the Palestinian-Israeli resolution efforts during his participation in the 72th UN General Assembly.

During his speech, Sisi called on the Israelis and Palestinians to trust their leaderships and repeat the example of Egypt and Israel, and urged the Palestinians in his Tuesday speech at the United Nations General Assembly to unite.



He emphasized that security in the region is based on ending the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and addressed Palestinians by saying that it is important to believe in statehood alongside an Israeli state.

Egypt brokered a Palestinian national reconciliation government this week, which will take over the authority the West Bank, as well as Gaza, which had been controlled by Hamas. Cairo hopes the new Palestinian government will engage in peace negotiations with Israel, as Sisi has already tackled the issue with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

On Monday, President Abdel-Fatah al-Sisi held talks with Palestinian president and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss boasting the peace talks.

For over a decade, Egypt has played a key role in putting an end for the over- a decade dispute between Hamas and Fatah after the first announced on Sunday that it has dissolved administrative committee at the Gaza Strip, to be replaced with the Government of National Reconciliation.

Egyptian authorities exerted endless efforts in order to revive the peace process in the Middle East by arranging the inner Palestinian political theatre since the very beginning of the dispute between both movements of Hamas and Fatah.

Egypt hosted talks between President Abbas and 12 Palestinian political factions in 2005. The declaration stressed on establishing a Palestinian state, whose capital is Jerusalem, as well as easing tensions with Israel if it stopped its aggression against the Palestinian people and territories and if it released detainees.

The declaration also objected settlements, the Israeli-West Bank barrier and Israel’s occupation of East Jerusalem.