CAIRO – Former assistant foreign minister ambassador Mohamed Hegazi said Egypt is exerting painstaking efforts to clinch ceasefire, support people in the Gaza Strip and ease the situation in order to end the war in the Palestinian enclave.
In statements to MENA, the former assistant foreign minister said President Abdel Fattah El Sisi talks Tuesday with Director of US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) William J. Burns, followed by ceasefire talks resumed in Doha Wednesday grouping delegations from Egypt, Qatar, the US and Israel before resuming negotiations in Cairo on Thursday are part of efforts meant to pressurize the Israeli government and narrow the gap of views between Tel Aviv and Hamas to save the truce as soon as possible.
Hegazi referred to Egypt’s warnings of complications, regional interference and expanding confrontations if such tragic unethical, non-humanitarian situation continued in the Gaza Strip as a result of shedding blood of innocent people and continued Israeli genocide crimes against civilians.
He added that the prospective presidential elections in the US represent a major chance to exercise pressure to end the war, explaining that the US seeks garnering support of domestic and international public opinion.
The international community became aware that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought hampering negotiations, Hegazi said.
If Israel really wants truce and hostage exchange, it should allow access of humanitarian and relief assistance, reach ceasefire truce, reconstruct the enclave and propose a political agreement towards the two-state solution for peace and stability to prevail the Middle East, according to him.
