CAIRO (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty confirmed on Monday his country’s rejection of the Israeli military presence on the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing and the Philadelphi Corridor on the border with the southern Gaza Strip.
This came during a meeting in Cairo with UN Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohamed, on the sidelines of her participation in the “Cairo Ministerial Conference to Enhance Humanitarian Response in Gaza”.
Abdelatty underlined the importance of rallying international efforts to allow access of humanitarian aid into Gaza, according to a statement by the Egyptian Foreign Ministry.
He stressed “the importance of sending a decisive political message of the necessity of reaching an immediate ceasefire and stopping the daily Israeli violations that are incompatible with the principles of international and humanitarian laws.”
During the meeting, the top Egyptian diplomat and the UN official discussed Egypt’s efforts to reach a ceasefire in Gaza.
The Palestinians in Gaza are suffering from systematic Israeli policy of starvation through the ongoing Israeli siege and the obstruction of humanitarian aid’s entry into the Strip, leading to the spread of famine in most areas of the besieged enclave, especially in the north.
