Egypt

CAIRO, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) -- Egypt offered to host a multilateral meeting to address the latest situation and the future of the Palestinian issue, the Egyptian Presidency said in a statement on Sunday.

The invitation was made after Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi held a National Security Council meeting to review regional developments, notably with regard to the military escalation in the Gaza Strip.

Egypt is ready to exert any effort to achieve calm in Gaza and activate a genuine peace process, the presidency said in a statement.

CAIRO, October 14. /TASS/: The Palestinian Hamas movement appreciates the position of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Moscow's efforts to settle the situation in the Gaza Strip, according to the group’s statement published on its Telegram channel.

14 October 2023; AA: The people of Gaza must have safe and urgent access to humanitarian aid, stressed the Turkish foreign minister and Egyptian president in a meeting on Saturday, said the Egypt Presidency in a statement.

Türkiye’s Hakan Fidan and Abdel Fattah El-Sisi discussed the latest developments in the Gaza Strip, said the presidency.

14 October 2023; AA: The World Health Organization (WHO) on Saturday said that a plane with much-needed medical supplies for the people of the Gaza Strip had landed in Egypt.

"A plane with WHO medical supplies to support the urgent health needs in Gaza has landed in Al Arish, Egypt – close to the Rafah crossing," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who heads the UN agency, said on X.

14 October 2023; MEMO: Secretary-General of the Arab League Ahmed Aboul Gheit, in an urgent letter to United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, called for him to exercise his political and moral influence to prevent a new war crime Israel plans to commit.

CAIRO, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Egypt has discussed plans with the United States and others to provide humanitarian aid through its border with Gaza Strip but rejects any move to set up safe corridors for refugees fleeing the enclave, Egyptian security sources said on Wednesday.

Gaza, a tiny coastal strip of land wedged between Israel in the north and east and Egypt to the southwest, is home to some 2.3 million people who have been living under a blockade since Palestinian Islamist group Hamas took control there in 2007.

12 October 2023; MEMO: Egypt’s largest and oldest religious institution, Al-Azhar University, has called on Arabs and Muslims to take a united position in the face of the inhumane Western support for the Israeli occupation state’s violation of all Palestinian rights. Al-Azhar said on Wednesday that there should be an international investigation into the war crimes committed by the Israeli occupation forces against children, women and the elderly in the besieged and isolated Gaza Strip.

10 October 2023; MEMO: A senior Egyptian official warned against pushing defenceless Palestinians towards the Egyptian border and fueling calls by some parties for a mass exodus to escape from Israel’s heavy military bombardment.

CAIRO, October 10. /TASS/: The Palestinian movement Hamas has informed all interested parties that it does not plan to engage in talks about the fate of its Israeli hostages as long as fighting continues, Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh said.

"We have informed all parties that the cases of our Israeli captives will not be opened until fighting ends," he noted, as cited by the Al Hadath TV channel.

Haniyeh added that "it will only be possible to resolve the issue of captive Israelis on Hamas’ terms."

CAIRO, October 9. /TASS/: The Palestinian radical movement Hamas, which administers the Gaza Strip, has warned that it will kill the Israelis taken hostage during a raid into Israel near Gaza, as follows from the movement’s statement quoted by Al-Hadath TV channel.

"The execution of Israeli hostages will be the response to [the Israeli forces'] attacks on residential buildings and civilian facilities," Hamas said in the statement.