Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi (Egyptian press - archive)

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi said on Friday that Egypt seeks to reach a ceasefire in Gaza, increase the entry of aid, and allow the displaced in the south of the Strip to move to the north.

In his speech during a visit to the headquarters of the Police Academy in Cairo, Sisi stressed the importance of the ceasefire in bringing the largest volume of aid into Gaza, and said that “the failure to enter aid leads to famine.”

He also stressed that the ceasefire would allow residents of the center and south to move towards the north, warning at the same time of the danger of the Israeli invasion of the border city of Rafah, to which estimates indicate the displacement of more than 1.5 million people near the Gaza Strip border with Egypt.

This is the second time this week that the Egyptian President has warned publicly and directly of the dangers of invading the Palestinian city of Rafah.

The day before yesterday, Wednesday, Al-Sisi said during a joint press conference with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte that the Israeli plan to invade Rafah threatens the lives of more than 1.5 million displaced people, whom Israel bears the responsibility to protect (..) in accordance with the rules of international law.

Egypt, Qatar, and the United States are leading mediation efforts to stop the devastating Israeli war on the Gaza Strip since last October 7, and the efforts succeeded in concluding a first truce last December, which only lasted for about a week.

Despite the start of the month of Ramadan, Israel continues to wage a devastating war on the Gaza Strip since last October 7, leaving tens of thousands of civilian casualties, most of them children and women, in addition to an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe and massive destruction of infrastructure, which led to Tel Aviv appearing before... International Court of Justice on charges of genocide.

As a result of the Israeli aggression since last October 7 and simultaneous Israeli restrictions, the residents of Gaza - especially the Gaza and North governorates - are facing severe famine, in light of a severe scarcity of food, water, medicine and fuel supplies, with the displacement of about two million Palestinians from the Strip, which has been besieged by Israel for 17 years. .

Source: Al Jazeera + agencies