Egypt s State Information Service (SIS)
In a statement, the SIS stressed that the existence of the forces in Sinai “comes within the framework of prior coordination with the parties to the Peace Treaty, which Egypt is fully keen to maintain, as throughout its history it [Egypt] has not violated any treaty or agreement.”
The Egypt–Israel peace treaty was signed in 1979 in Washington by late Egyptian President Anwar El-Sadat and then-Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin, following the 1978 Camp David Accords. The agreement, signed in the wake of the Egyptian victory in the 1973 War against Israel, ended the Israeli occupation of the Sinai Peninsula since the 1967 War.
The SIS said it issued the statement in response to what is being circulated by global mass media and websites on the presence of the Egyptian Armed Forces in the Sinai Peninsula.
Meanwhile, the SIS statement indicated that Egypt reiterates its complete rejection of any expansion of military operations in Gaza or the displacement of Palestinians from their land.
Egypt also emphasizes its support for the Palestinian people’s right to establish their independent state in accordance with the two-state solution, on the borders of June 4, 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital, the SIS statement said.
On Monday, President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said during the Emergency Arab-Islamic Summit in Doha that Israel’s actions have abandoned all political or military rationale and have brazenly crossed every red line.
Addressing the Israeli people, El-Sisi said: “What is currently unfolding undermines the future of peace, threatens your security and the security of all peoples in the region, erodes opportunities for any new peace agreements, and even aborts existing peace accords with the nations of the region.”
The president also noted that consequences will be severe and that the region could revert to a state of conflict, thus wasting the historic efforts to build peace and the fruits they have yielded.
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