Al-Sisi meets with Linken in Cairo and warns against the attack on Rafah. US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken continued his regional tour, which he began yesterday, Wednesday, in Saudi Arabia.

The Egyptian presidency said in a statement that Sisi stressed, during his meeting with Blinken, the necessity of an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. Blinken is scheduled to participate today, Thursday in Cairo, in a meeting with his Qatari, Jordanian, and Egyptian counterparts.