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Arab leaders have called for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, an end to all attempts of forced displacement and all forms of siege, allowing full and sustainable access to humanitarian aid for the enclave, in addition to an immediate withdrawal of Israel from the Palestinian city of Rafah.
Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and his Bahraini counterpart Abdullatif bin Rashid Alzayani stressed the necessity of realizing a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and ending Israeli military operations in the Palestinian city of Rafah,
A total of 10 dead bodies were recovered from the Al-Salam neighborhood, east of the Palestinian city of Rafah, as a result of the Israeli bombing, said the Civil Defense in Gaza.
The Egyptian Minister told the US Secretary of State that the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza is vital and inevitable after being halted over the past few days.
The relief organization added on X: “At least 300,000 people affected as further areas across [the] GazaStrip receive new evacuation orders today, both towards central Rafah in the south AND #Jabalia in north #Gaza.”
The newspaper added that following heightened media pressure from Egyptian agencies calling for the cancellation of the Camp David Accords, Israeli officials initiated contact with their Egyptian counterparts to ascertain the nature, extent, and significance of these demands.
He added: “Israel prevents the arrival of humanitarian aid to more than 2 million Palestinians, and endangers their lives and the lives of the wounded and sick by preventing their travel for treatment.”
“I made it clear that if they go into Rafah – they have not gone in Rafah yet – if they go into Rafah, I am not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafah, to deal with the cities – that deal with that problem,” the US President was quoted as saying by the CNN.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shokry received Monday evening a phone call from his Emirati counterpart Sheikh Abdallah Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan.
A high-level source stated that the Egyptian security delegation warned its counterparts in Israel of the consequences of storming the Rafah crossing.
Louise Wooddridge, an official in the media department at UNRWA, who is currently in Gaza, denounced the evacuation orders issued by the Israeli occupation forces to the displaced people in the Al-Mawasi area in Rafah, Palestine.
The statement released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs considered that such "perilous escalation a threat to the lives of more than one million Palestinians."
The Mawasi area in Khan Yunis, to which Israel ordered the Palestinians in eastern Rafah to evacuate, is already overcrowded with tents and lacks basic services
The Union of Arab Tribes warned of serious repercussions of an Israeli offensive in the crowded Palestinian Rafah area.
UNRWA will not evacuate its sites in Gaza in case of an Israeli Rafah invasion, according to Cairo News.
U.S. officials told Washington Post, Friday that they do not think an offensive is imminent in Rafah. They added that the conditions on the ground appear to support that assessment.
A high-ranking Egyptian source, said that there has been significant progress in bringing the views of the Egyptian and Israeli delegations closer together regarding reaching a ceasefire in Gaza Strip.
North Sinai Governor Mohamed Shousha stated in a TV interview on Wednesday that New Rafah was designed to be a fourth-generation city.
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al Sisi reiterated on Wednesday, the crucial importance of ending the ongoing war in Gaza, warning against any military operations in the Palestinian city of Rafah.
Head of the State Information Service [SIS] Diaa Rashwan said that Egypt didn’t use the ‘warning’ expression with Israel in nearly four decades
