Sisi Says International Community Must Work to Settle Palestinian File

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi (Egyptian Presidency)

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi stressed “the importance of serious action by the international community towards a just and comprehensive settlement of the Palestinian issue, in accordance with the references of international legitimacy.”
He noted that Egypt continues its efforts to accelerate the transfer of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, in order to alleviate the sufferings of the Palestinians.
On Wednesday, Sisi received a phone call from the Prime Minister of Japan, Fumio Kishida. According to a statement by the Egyptian presidential spokesman, Ahmed Fahmy, the two officials exchanged views regarding developments in the regional situation and in the Palestinian territories.
The statement added that the Japanese prime minister listened to Sisi’s view on the means to calm the escalation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, and the efforts aimed at “stabilizing the ongoing truce and building on it towards a permanent ceasefire.”
The conversation touched on Egyptian efforts to provide relief aid to the people of the Gaza Strip, Fahmy said, noting that Fumio expressed his country’s appreciation for Cairo’s role and efforts on various axes related to the current crisis and stability in the region.
Meanwhile, the Rafah border crossing witnessed a remarkable improvement in terms of delivery of relief aid to the Palestinians and the transfer of foreigners and the wounded.
The head of the Egyptian State Information Service, Diaa Rashwan, said on Wednesday: “The volume of medical aid that was brought into the Gaza Strip as of Tuesday evening amounted to 2,973 tons, while the volume of food aid amounted to 11,972 tons, and water 9,111 tons, in addition to 2,611 tons of other relief materials.”
Rashwan stated that Egypt received, during the same period, 575 injured persons from Gaza for treatment in Egyptian hospitals, along with about 320 companions. Moreover, around 8,691 foreigners and dual nationals crossed to Egypt from Gaza, while 421 stranded Palestinians returned to the Strip.
Meanwhile, Egypt marked the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, on Wednesday, by calling on the international community to “take serious and decisive action to stop the grave Israeli violations against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and the entire occupied Palestinian territory.”
According to a statement by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Egypt called for “a permanent and unconditional ceasefire in the Gaza Strip to spare the blood of innocent people, and to provide the necessary relief and humanitarian aid in an adequate and sustainable manner, in order to deal with the unprecedented humanitarian tragedy to which the Palestinian people are exposed.”
The statement continued: “Stability in the Middle East will not be achieved except through a just and comprehensive settlement of the Palestinian issue on the basis of the two-state solution and the relevant decisions of international legitimacy, which requires the international community to come together with all seriousness to implement the two-state solution and embody the independent Palestinian state on the lines of June 4, 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital.”