Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs headquarters in the New Administrative Capital. Photo: Al-Ahram
In a statement on Sunday evening, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said: “These statements contravene with the crucial role Egypt has played in facilitating the entry of urgent humanitarian aid for the Palestinian people, including 5,000 humanitarian aid trucks since the ceasefire went into effect in addition to facilitating the evacuation of those wounded and dual nationalities into the country."
“Egypt views these statements as an attempt to distract from Israel's crimes against civilians in Gaza; its destruction of vital infrastructure, such as hospitals, schools, power stations, and water facilities in the strip; in addition to using siege and starvation as weapons against civilians," stressed the Egyptian foreign ministry.
In his Fox News interview on Saturday, PM Netanyahu, who the International Criminal Court wants on war crimes for overseeing the 15-month Israeli genocidal war on Palestinians in Gaza, put on sheep's clothing, pretending he cared for the Palestinians' pain to advance his stated wishes to displace the native population forcibly.
Denying that Israel wants to cleanse the Palestinians from Gaza ethnically, he claimed that he wants people in Gaza to have the opportunity to "voluntarily exit" the strip, accusing Egypt of standing in the way of their departure.
"Get the population out, allow them to leave. Not forcible eviction, not ethnic cleansing -- getting people out of what all these countries and all these do-gooders say is an open-air prison. Why are you keeping them in prison?" said Netanyahu, who orchestrated an iron-clad embargo on food, water, and medicine to the strip during the war, leaving most of the 2.4 million population on the verge of starvation.
The Israeli PM's newly-found "humanitarian" concern for the Palestinians echoed recently floated proposals made by US President Donald Trump during their presser at the White House on Wednesday to displace the Palestinians from Gaza and turn the strip into a Middle Eastern Riviera.
On Sunday, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry reaffirmed "Egypt’s firm rejection of any statements advocating the displacement of the Palestinian people to Egypt, Jordan, or Saudi Arabia."
On Saturday, Egypt strongly condemned Netanyahu's "completely unacceptable, provocative statements", also made from Washington, against Saudi Arabia, in which he called on the Kingdom to make room for a Palestinian state in its territories.
Cairo and Amman have unequivocally rejected President Trump's proposals for the displacement of the Palestinians to Egypt, Jordan, and other Arab and Muslim countries.
On Sunday, the Egyptian foreign ministry noted: “Egypt stands in full solidarity with the brave people of people of Gaza who are holding on to their land and defending their just and legitimate cause despite all the atrocities that they are subjected to."
"Egypt remains committed to its established positions and Arab principles, emphasizing the Palestinian people's right to establish their independent state on the 4 June 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital," the Foreign Ministry statement concluded.
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