Egypt’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry slammed remarks made by Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich calling for the “voluntary” displacement of Palestinians from Gaza, saying Israel’s actions in the strip are a war crime.
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Egypt started receiving children with cancer from the war-battered Gaza Strip, shortly after Turkey announced plans to take cancer patients for treatment as per an agreement with Egypt, Al-Qahera News reported on Monday.
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The Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) said on Sunday that it is ready to send humanitarian aid and relief cargo to Egypt to be delivered to Gaza through the Rafah border crossing, Iranian semi-official Mehr News Agency reported.
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John Kirby, the US’s National Security Council coordinator, said they will talk with Egypt and other partners in the region about the possibility of them hosting Palestinian families fleeing the Gaza Strip on a temporary basis.
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Palestinian Minister of Health Mai Al-Kailah said the dozens of humanitarian aid trucks that have entered Gaza from Egypt through the Rafah border crossing are “nothing compared to the damage and losses” over the more than two weeks of Israeli strikes in the strip.
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Israel said it allowed the entry of humanitarian aid from Egypt to southern Gaza through the Rafah border crossing on Sunday, saying it will only “allow the entry of food, water, and medical supplies but not fuel.”
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While leaders of the Arab countries at the Cairo Summit for Peace have focused on the need to halt the war in Gaza and return to negotiations, most of the European officials in attendance were more keen on condemning Hamas for its 7th of October attack inside Israel and defending Israel's "right to self-defense."
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US President Joe Biden will hold talks with Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, Jordan's King Abdullah and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Amman after his Wednesday visit to Israel amid Israeli deadly strikes on Gaza.
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Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and his Cypriot counterpart, Nikos Christodoulides, warned of repercussions of the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip on regional stability.
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Minister of Foreign Affairs Sameh Shoukry said Egypt is keen to deliver the humanitarian aid received from different states to the Gaza Strip and facilitate the passage of foreigners stranded in the enclave through Rafah Border Crossing to Cairo and then to their countries of origin.
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Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry said the repeated Israeli orders for Gaza residents to move south could put more than a million Palestinians at risk of homelessness while facing dire humanitarian and security conditions.
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Israel has not issued an official call for directing people of Gaza toward the Egyptian lands, Avichay Adraee, an Israeli army spokesman, said as Israeli air strikes on the strip have continued without respite over the past days.
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Egyptian security sources have warned of the resurgence of a frequently proposed Israeli scheme to resettle Gazans in Sinai, stressing that Egypt will reject such “historically and politically corrupt” proposals.
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Farid Zahran, head of the opposition Social Democratic Party, submitted his candidacy papers to the National Election Authority (NEA) on Sunday to become the second candidate to submit to run in presidential elections in December.
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Numerous political parties, parliamentarians, and the Arab Parliament censured the European Parliament for its recent resolution concerning Egypt’s upcoming elections and treatment of the opposition, calling it “blatant interference” in Egypt's internal affairs.
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The House of Representatives said that the European Parliament’s recent resolution on Egypt’s political and human rights affairs reveals prejudice against the country’s upcoming presidential elections, scheduled for December.
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President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi said the donation-based Tahya Misr (Long Live Egypt) Fund will bear half the cost of establishing 17 new technical universities across the country, estimated to cost EGP 500-600 million.
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Egypt condemned a deadly attack by the Houthis early on Monday against Bahraini forces stationed on the Saudi southern border with Yemen as part of the Saudi-led Arab Coalition.
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After Kyiv announced sending 17,600 tons of grain to Egypt, Moscow said it had delivered more than eight million tons of wheat to Egypt over the past fiscal year.
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Egypt’s National Dialogue’s Board of Trustees urged state bodies to maintain their neutrality during the upcoming presidential elections and safeguard candidates’ right to campaign freely.
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