Egypt, Iran Discuss Gaza Situation, Restoring Ties

The Egyptian and Iranian presidents during their talks in Riyadh on the sidelines of the extraordinary joint Arab-Islamic summit. (Egyptian presidency) 
The Egyptian and Iranian presidents during their talks in Riyadh on the sidelines of the extraordinary joint Arab-Islamic summit. (Egyptian presidency) 
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Egypt, Iran Discuss Gaza Situation, Restoring Ties

The Egyptian and Iranian presidents during their talks in Riyadh on the sidelines of the extraordinary joint Arab-Islamic summit. (Egyptian presidency) 
The Egyptian and Iranian presidents during their talks in Riyadh on the sidelines of the extraordinary joint Arab-Islamic summit. (Egyptian presidency) 

Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi and his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi discussed on Saturday the latest developments pertaining to the Gaza war and the restoration of ties between the two countries.
Raisi congratulated Sisi on his recent re-election and they discussed the developments in Gaza in their first telephone call, according to the Egyptian presidency spokesperson.
They further followed up on outstanding issues between the two countries.
The presidents agreed to take tangible steps for the final resolution of issues between the two countries, added the political deputy of the Iranian President's Office.
Iranian Tasnim news agency quoted the political deputy as saying that the two officials discussed the latest developments in Palestine and stressed the importance of Islamic unity.
This month, Sisi was reelected for a new six-year presidential term.

The two presidents met for the first time in Nov. on the sidelines of the extraordinary joint Arab-Islamic summit in Riyadh. Iran and Egypt ended diplomatic relations in 1979. Ties were resumed 11 years later but on the level of the Chargé d'Affairs.
Several meetings were held in the past months between Egyptian and Iranian ministers to discuss the possibility of developing bilateral ties.



Israel Army Chief Says Will Use 'All Tools' to Find West Bank Attackers

Chief of the General Staff of the Israeli army Eyal Zamir attends the official state opening ceremony of Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day in Israel, at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, 23 April 2025. EPA/ABIR SULTAN
Chief of the General Staff of the Israeli army Eyal Zamir attends the official state opening ceremony of Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day in Israel, at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, 23 April 2025. EPA/ABIR SULTAN
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Israel Army Chief Says Will Use 'All Tools' to Find West Bank Attackers

Chief of the General Staff of the Israeli army Eyal Zamir attends the official state opening ceremony of Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day in Israel, at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, 23 April 2025. EPA/ABIR SULTAN
Chief of the General Staff of the Israeli army Eyal Zamir attends the official state opening ceremony of Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day in Israel, at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, 23 April 2025. EPA/ABIR SULTAN

Israel's military will use "all the tools" at its disposal to find the perpetrators of a West Bank attack that left a pregnant Israeli woman dead, army chief Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir said Thursday.

"We will use all the tools at our disposal and reach the murderers in order to hold them accountable," Zamir said as he visited the scene of the attack on the woman's vehicle in the north of the occupied West Bank.

"After struggling to save the life of the woman who was critically injured in the shooting attack in Samaria and arrived during resuscitation, the medical teams were forced to pronounce her dead," Beilinson Hospital said in a statement, using the biblical name to refer to the West Bank.

It added that the baby was delivered via caesarean section and transferred to another hospital.