‏Sisi: Concerted int’l efforts necessary for prompt entry of adequate humanitarian relief aid to Gaza

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El Sisi has stressed the necessity of concerting international efforts for the immediate delivery of humanitarian relief aid to all areas of the Gaza Strip and called for serious action to achieve a just settlement of the Palestinian cause through the two-state solution.

‏This came during a meeting with the visiting Director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), William Burns, on Sunday. Head of the General Intelligence Service Abbas Kamel attended the meeting.

‏Joint Egyptian-Qatari-US efforts to achieve a ceasefire in Gaza Strip were considered during the meeting, Presidency Spokesman Ahmed Fahmy said.

‏In this context, he added, the developments of the situation on the ground in Gaza were reviewed, with the ensuing need for intensifying efforts to achieve calm and halt military escalation.

‏In the course of this review, President Sisi stressed the gravity of the humanitarian situation in Gaza Strip, where a famine is looming large, Spokesman Fahmy said.

‏President Sisi also stressed that the concerting of international efforts without delay becomes inevitable under such circumstances in order to press for the immediate entry of adequate relief aid to all areas in Gaza Strip, the Spokesman said.

‏The two sides, he added, shared views on the need to protect civilians, the risks of military escalation in the Palestinian city of Rafah and full rejection of displacing Palestinians out of their lands.

‏President Sisi also underlined the necessity of serious work in the direction of achieving a just settlement of the Palestinian cause through the two-state solution, warning of the expansion of the circle of conflict to the detriment of regional security and stability, Spokesman Fahmy said.