Netanyahu receives the head of Egyptian intelligence.. Ashkenazi visits Cairo

Egyptian-Israeli talks to revive the peace process and establish a ceasefire in Gaza

During the meeting of the foreign ministers of Egypt and Israel and a number of officials of the two countries in Cairo yesterday.

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Officials from Egypt and Israel held joint talks to revive the peace track and consolidate the ceasefire in the Palestinian Gaza Strip. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received the head of the Egyptian General Intelligence Service Abbas Kamel, while the Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry received the Foreign Minister. Israeli, Gabi Ashkenazi.

The official spokesman for the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, Ahmed Hafez, said that this comes within the framework of Egypt's persistent and continuous efforts to revive the peace track and build on the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli foreign minister, heading a delegation, arrived in Cairo yesterday morning, coming from Tel Aviv, on a visit to Egypt, the first by an Israeli foreign minister to Egypt in 13 years. The former Israeli foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, was the last Israeli foreign minister to visit Egypt in 2008.

Shoukry stressed that reaching a two-state solution is the only way to achieve a just and lasting peace, and the desired security and stability. Al-Aqsa Mosque and all Islamic and Christian holy sites, and he expressed the importance of taking measures aimed at promoting calm, reviving the political track and urgently launching serious negotiations.

In a related context, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received the head of the Egyptian General Intelligence Service, Abbas Kamel, and a statement from Netanyahu's office said that they discussed strengthening Israeli-Egyptian cooperation and regional issues, and the two sides welcomed the bilateral relations, the understandings reached, and joint efforts. The two countries are making various security and political issues. During the meeting, Netanyahu raised the “demand for the return of the detainees in the Gaza Strip as soon as possible.” The meeting was also attended by the Israeli Minister of Intelligence, Eli Cohen, and the head of the Israeli National Security Authority, Meir Ben-Shabbat.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met with the head of the Egyptian General Intelligence, and they discussed in the city of Ramallah the latest developments related to the comprehensive calm, including Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza, the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, and the file of the Palestinian national dialogue. Kamel affirmed that Egypt will continue to coordinate and work with Palestine in all steps and initiatives.

On May 20, Israel and the Hamas movement in Gaza reached a ceasefire agreement, and it entered into force at dawn on Friday, May 21, after an escalation that left 258 Palestinian martyrs, including 66 children, and on the Israeli side 12 people were killed.

The escalation between the two sides erupted against the backdrop of the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood issue in East Jerusalem, as dozens of Palestinian families faced the threat of evacuating their homes in favor of settlement associations, and tension spread to different parts of Jerusalem, including the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque.

The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates said in a statement yesterday that the siege of Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood, and the suppression of solidarity activists, is a test of the credibility of the international community and the US administration.

In a statement, the ministry condemned, in the strongest terms, the Israeli forces’ continued suppression of the peaceful solidarity vigils with the residents of Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood who are threatened with forced displacement, and expelled them from their homes, in the interest of settlement associations, the latest of which was the occupation police’s assault on the solidarity activists and journalists with beatings and tear gas canisters, and forcibly expelling them from the area And the arrest of a number of them, in addition to storming residents’ homes and assaulting their residents, amid the continued closure of the entrance to the neighborhood with cement cubes for more than two weeks.

The Ministry strongly condemned the continued provocative incursions into the courtyards of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and affirmed the continuation of its political and diplomatic activity at all levels, including the United Nations and its organizations, in providing protection and services to the residents of Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.

• The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemns the Israeli forces' continued suppression of solidarity vigils with the residents of Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.

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