Both policies were defended during a meeting between Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Sheikh Fahad Yousef Saud al-Sabah, the statement said.
During the meeting, al-Sabah stressed his support for Cairo’s efforts to achieve lasting peace in the Middle East. In turn, El-Sisi emphasized the need to strengthen collective efforts to ensure the delivery of sufficient humanitarian aid to Gaza and maintain the truce, which came into effect this month.
The Egyptian Presidency said that both dignitaries analyzed the current regional situation. On Saturday, the Arab League and six countries in the region rejected any displacement of the Palestinian people from the Gaza Strip, as proposed by US President Donald Trump.
At a meeting in Cairo, representatives of the regional organization and the foreign ministers of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates denounced attempts to force the exodus of the Strip’s population, whether short-term or permanent. “We express our continued full support for the Palestinian people’s determination to remain on their land and their struggle to achieve their legitimate rights,” they said in a final statement at the end of the meeting, and rejected “violations of those inalienable rights, whether through colonization, demolition of homes, annexation of land, or expulsion.”
At a press conference last week, El-Sisi reaffirmed his government’s rejection of any displacement of Palestinians from Gaza. “It is an injustice in which we cannot participate,” the president said in his first public reaction to Trump’s comments.
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