Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi is in Cairo on Sunday, the first for thirteen years, for discussions on the truce established on May 21, in favor of Egyptian mediation, after a new war between Israel and Palestinian Hamas.
This visit aims, among other things, to “deepen the mechanisms around an agreement” on the Gaza Strip and to discuss the issues of the reconstruction of the Palestinian enclave, in particular at the “international level”, Gabi Ashkenazi told her on Twitter. getting off the plane.
The Israeli minister also evokes in the framework of these discussions “Israel’s commitment to bring back its soldiers and civilians” from the Gaza Strip. He was referring to the bodies of two soldiers killed in action in 2014 and the two civilians of Israeli nationality who entered the Palestinian enclave of their own accord and have been detained since.
Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh is also expected in Cairo, according to an Egyptian security source, who did not provide further details.
Meanwhile, Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel was due to visit the Palestinian territories on Sunday, a security source told AFP. According to the Palestinian Minister of Civil Affairs, Hussein al-Sheikh, he must also “discuss what Jerusalem and its holy places are exposed to, the reconstruction of Gaza and the Palestinian national dialogue”, between the two main Palestinian formations, the Fatah and Hamas. Mr. Kamel was also to meet “the Israeli Prime Minister and the authorities concerned” about the ceasefire, according to the security source.
From May 10 to 21, 254 Palestinians were killed by Israeli strikes in the Gaza Strip, including 66 children and fighters, according to local authorities. In Israel, rocket fire from Gaza killed 12 people, including a child, a teenage girl and a soldier, according to police. The two parties have been observing a ceasefire, obtained through Cairo.
The recent conflict erupted with Hamas firing rocket rounds in Gaza into Israel in solidarity with hundreds of Palestinians injured in days of clashes with Israeli police on the Mosque Plaza in occupied East Jerusalem. . At the origin of the clashes, the threat of expulsion of Palestinian families for the benefit of Israeli settlers.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has pledged $ 500 million for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip heavily damaged by the bombings in May.
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Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi is in Cairo on Sunday, the first in thirteen years, for discussions on the truce established on May 21, through Egyptian mediation, after a new war between Israel and Palestinian Hamas. This visit aims, among other things, to “deepen the mechanisms around an agreement” on the Gaza Strip and to …
