Cairo, Juba Intensify Talks to ‘Stabilize Ceasefire in Sudan ’

Sisi met Tuesday with South Sudan's Presidential Advisor on Security Affairs Tut Gatluak (Egyptian Presidency)
Sisi met Tuesday with South Sudan's Presidential Advisor on Security Affairs Tut Gatluak (Egyptian Presidency)
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Cairo, Juba Intensify Talks to ‘Stabilize Ceasefire in Sudan ’

Sisi met Tuesday with South Sudan's Presidential Advisor on Security Affairs Tut Gatluak (Egyptian Presidency)
Sisi met Tuesday with South Sudan's Presidential Advisor on Security Affairs Tut Gatluak (Egyptian Presidency)

Cairo and Juba have intensified their efforts to stabilize the ceasefire in Sudan, following weeks of ongoing fighting between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

On Tuesday, President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and South Sudan's President Salva Kirr exchanged messages carried by envoys from both sides.

While Sisi met with South Sudan's Presidential Advisor on Security Affairs Tut Gatluak, his counterpart in South Sudan was holding talks with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry.

“Sisi met with Gatluak in the presence of the Director of the Egyptian General Intelligence Service, Major General Abbas Kamel,” the Egyptian presidential spokesman, Ahmed Fahmy, said.

He noted that Gatluak gave the President a letter from Salva Kiir on ways to strengthen the distinguished bilateral relations between the two fraternal countries.

During the meeting the grave challenges facing Sudan at the humanitarian, security and political levels were tackled, and the efforts to resolve the crisis in order to safeguard the Sudanese people were tackled.

Also they discussed the importance of encouraging Sudanese parties to maintain the truce and move towards a comprehensive and lasting ceasefire to allow for the delivery of humanitarian assistance and relief and a constructive dialogue to resolve differences and settle the crisis, thus completing the transitional path and political process in a way that preserves the unity and cohesion of the State, fulfills the aspirations of the Sudanese people and safeguards their supreme interests.

In a related development, Shoukry met with South Sudan's President Salva Kirr in Juba, as part of the FM’s visits to Chad and South Sudan to discuss the latest developments of the Sudanese crisis and its regional and international impacts.

The Minister delivered a message from Sisi that dealt with the latest developments in war-ridden Sudan and the important role of its neighboring countries in helping to resolve the current crisis and enabling the warring parties to reach a permanent ceasefire to save the lives of the Sudanese people and preserve the country's stability and territorial integrity.

Ambassador Ahmed Abu Zeid, the Foreign Ministry’s official spokesperson said Shoukry reviewed the efforts and contacts that Egypt has made since the beginning of the crisis, especially at the political level by working with the conflicting parties and the influential forces regionally and internationally to realize a ceasefire and settle differences through dialogue.

He also explained that Egypt had received over 60,000 refugees fleeing the conflict in Sudan, highlighting the immense human suffering inflicted on the Sudanese due to this conflict.

The foreign minister stressed during his meeting with Kirr the necessity of coordination among Sudan’s neighboring countries which are directly affected by the continuation of the Sudanese conflict.



Israeli Forces Storm Major West Bank City of Nablus

Tear gas and smoke are pictured through a window during a large-scale Israeli military raid in the old town of Nablus city in the occupied West Bank, on June 10, 2025. (AFP)
Tear gas and smoke are pictured through a window during a large-scale Israeli military raid in the old town of Nablus city in the occupied West Bank, on June 10, 2025. (AFP)
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Israeli Forces Storm Major West Bank City of Nablus

Tear gas and smoke are pictured through a window during a large-scale Israeli military raid in the old town of Nablus city in the occupied West Bank, on June 10, 2025. (AFP)
Tear gas and smoke are pictured through a window during a large-scale Israeli military raid in the old town of Nablus city in the occupied West Bank, on June 10, 2025. (AFP)

Israel launched a large-scale military operation on Tuesday in the old city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, AFP journalists reported, with the army reporting injured troops and two Palestinians "eliminated".

Dozens of military vehicles entered the city shortly after midnight, an AFP journalist reported, after a curfew had been announced over loudspeakers the day before.

Military operations are focused on the old city, a densely populated area bordering a large downtown square where young men and boys gathered to burn tires and throw stones at armored vehicles.

The Israeli army said that one soldier was "moderately injured" and three others "lightly injured" when two Palestinians attempted to steal a soldier's weapon.

Troops opened fire and "eliminated" both Palestinians, the army said in a statement, using a term the military often uses when killing gunmen.

AFPTV footage showed Israeli soldiers standing in one of the old city's narrow streets, next to the bodies of two civilians.

Neither Palestinian medics nor the Israeli army confirmed the two deaths.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said on Tuesday that three people were injured from bullet shrapnel, four from "physical assaults", and dozens more from tear gas inhalation.

It added that many injuries had to be handled within the old city after its ambulances were blocked from entering.

Nablus is located in the northern West Bank, a Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967.

The territory's north has been the target of a major Israeli military operation dubbed "Iron Wall" since January 21.

On Tuesday, Israeli soldiers entered shops to search them and arrested several people for questioning, according to an AFP correspondent at the scene.

The correspondent added that Israeli flags were raised over the roofs of buildings in the Old City that had been turned into temporary bases for Israeli troops.

Violence has surged in the West Bank since the start of the Gaza war, triggered by the unprecedented October 7, 2023 attack by the Palestinian movement Hamas on Israel.

At least 938 Palestinians, including fighters but also many civilians, have been killed in the West Bank by Israeli soldiers or settlers, according to data from the Palestinian Authority.

During the same period, least 35 Israelis, both civilians and soldiers, have been killed in Palestinian attacks or during Israeli military raids, according to official Israeli figures.