Saudis also raise alarm; ground op pledged by Netanyahu in refugee-packed border city draws rebukes even from allies. Egypt and Saudi Arabia have added their voices to a rising tide of criticism of a planned
A new round of negotiations aimed at achieving “calm” in Gaza and a prisoner-captive exchange is set to open in Cairo, the AFP news agency reports. Egypt is urging “both parties to show the necessary
Egyptian officials said they have received Hamas’s response to a truce agreement they proposed for the Gaza Strip, a statement from Egypt’s state information service said. Earlier, we reported on an official statement from Hamas
U.S., Qatari and Egyptian mediators prepared a diplomatic push to bridge differences between Israel and Hamas on a ceasefire plan for Gaza after the Palestinian group responded to a proposal for an extended pause in
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday landed in Cairo for his meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi as the United States works to advance a Gaza truce and hostage deal mediated by
France’s top diplomat Stephane Sejourne said Sunday he rejects the “forced displacement” of Palestinians into Egypt from the Gaza Strip, where Israeli bombardment has pushed hundreds of thousands against the border. At the start of
As diplomatic tensions between Israel and Egypt continue to rise over Israel’s continuing war on Gaza and its military’s plans to seize the strip’s southern border with Egypt, Israel is considering closing the Rafah border
An Egyptian senior security official denied on Thursday that Egypt made any new security arrangements with Israel regarding the Philadelphi Corridor (Salah Al-Din Corridor) along the border with Egypt, according to Al-Qahera News TV channel.
CAIRO — As Israeli troops push farther south in Gaza, officials in Jerusalem are signaling what could be a central, and politically perilous, aim of the war’s next phase: taking control of the border crossing
Shin Bet director Ronen Bar met with the head of Egypt’s General Intelligence Directorate Abbas Kamel in Cairo on Monday amid reported tensions between their two governments over Israel’s war on the Hamas terror group
