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Egypt, UAE Discuss Military Cooperation

Egypt’s Defense Minister General Mohamed Ahmed Zaki and UAE Minister of State for Defense Affairs Mohammed bin Ahmed Al Bowardi in Cairo on Tuesday. (Egyptian military spokesman)
Egypt’s Defense Minister General Mohamed Ahmed Zaki and UAE Minister of State for Defense Affairs Mohammed bin Ahmed Al Bowardi in Cairo on Tuesday. (Egyptian military spokesman)
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Egypt, UAE Discuss Military Cooperation

Egypt’s Defense Minister General Mohamed Ahmed Zaki and UAE Minister of State for Defense Affairs Mohammed bin Ahmed Al Bowardi in Cairo on Tuesday. (Egyptian military spokesman)
Egypt’s Defense Minister General Mohamed Ahmed Zaki and UAE Minister of State for Defense Affairs Mohammed bin Ahmed Al Bowardi in Cairo on Tuesday. (Egyptian military spokesman)

UAE Minister of State for Defense Affairs Mohammed bin Ahmed Al Bowardi met with Egyptian Defense Minister General Mohamed Ahmed Zaki on the sidelines of the 2nd edition of Egypt International Defense and Security Exhibition Tuesday.

They discussed international and regional developments and ways to enhance defense and military cooperation.

Bowardi hailed the highly-organization exhibition, which is a major military forum in the Middle East. He emphasized the deeply rooted and historic ties between the two fraternal countries.

Also during the event, Egyptian Chief of Staff Osama Askar met with his Saudi counterpart General Staff Fayyad bin Hamed al-Ruwaili, Chief of Staff of the Algerian People's National Army Said Chengriha, and Chief of Staff of the Qatari Armed Forces Salem bin Hamad bin Mohammed bin Aqeel al Nabit

The officials discussed means to strengthen military and security fields, as well as future cooperation in various fields,

EDEX 2021 kicked off on Monday at the Egypt International Exhibition Center in New Cairo. It continues until December 2.

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UN, Aid Group Slam Israel’s Gaza Blockade after Report Warns of Famine Risk

This picture taken from a position in southern Israel along the border with the Gaza Strip on May 6, 2025, shows smoke billowing from explosions in Gaza. (AFP)
This picture taken from a position in southern Israel along the border with the Gaza Strip on May 6, 2025, shows smoke billowing from explosions in Gaza. (AFP)
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UN, Aid Group Slam Israel’s Gaza Blockade after Report Warns of Famine Risk

This picture taken from a position in southern Israel along the border with the Gaza Strip on May 6, 2025, shows smoke billowing from explosions in Gaza. (AFP)
This picture taken from a position in southern Israel along the border with the Gaza Strip on May 6, 2025, shows smoke billowing from explosions in Gaza. (AFP)

A senior United Nations official said Monday’s hunger report in Gaza is “extremely concerning” given that the strip’s roughly 2 million population continues to face “a very critical risk of famine.”

Beth Bechdol, deputy director of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, said Gaza’s food system has collapsed since Israel reimposed its blockade.

“We are moving into a period where the entire population of the Gaza Strip ... are continuing to face a very critical risk of famine and extreme hunger and malnutrition,” she said in an interview.

Mahmoud Alsaqqa, food security coordinator for the charity Oxfam, meanwhile, slammed Israel’s blockade, saying that thousands of aid trucks carrying aid were prevented from reaching desperate civilians.

“Gaza’s starvation is not incidental—it is deliberate, entirely engineered,” he said. “It is unconscionable and is being allowed to happen.”

Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, a leading international authority on the severity of hunger crises, said outright famine is the most likely scenario unless conditions change.

Nearly half a million Palestinians are in “catastrophic” levels of hunger, meaning they face possible starvation, the report said, while another million are at “emergency” levels of hunger.