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UPDATE: Israel examining Gaza cease-fire proposal, but framework differs from its offer CAIRO (AP) — The Hamas militant group says it has accepted an Egyptian-Qatari cease-fire proposal to halt seven-month war with Israel. It issued a statement Monday saying its supreme leader, Ismail Haniyeh, had delivered the ...
... it is feared would be a devastating assault on Rafah. WATCH: Israeli and Palestinian singers bring their hope for peace and justice to U.S. Egypt has been privately assuring Hamas that the deal will mean a total end to the war. But the Egyptian official said Hamas says the ...
... well as the regional peace and security.” El-Sissi’s comments came in a phone call with Prime Minister Mark Rutte of The Netherlands, the Egyptian leader’s office said. Egypt has also said an attack on Rafah would violate the decades-old peace deal between Egypt and Israel. Illustrating ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday wrote to the leaders of Egypt and Qatar, calling on them to press Hamas for a hostage deal with Israel, according to a senior administration official, one day after Biden called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to redouble efforts to reach a ...
... Egypt — and the commission concedes that “human rights challenges in Egypt remain significant." Still, the EU's executive branch maintains that “the political leadership in Egypt has taken several steps putting greater emphasis on the importance of the respect for human rights” in recent years.Earlier this month, Egypt floated ...
In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, the first stop on his sixth urgent Mideast mission since the war began, Blinken said Wednesday that the “gaps are narrowing” in indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas over another cease-fire and hostage release that the U.S., Egypt and Qatar have spent weeks trying ...
... international rights groups over Egypt’s human rights record. Amnesty International urged European leaders not to be complicit with human rights violations taking place in Egypt. “EU leaders must ensure that the Egyptian authorities adopt clear benchmarks for human rights," said Eve Geddie, Amnesty International's head of the European ...
Sameh Shoukry: Well, let me not try to speculate on a hypothetical, but it would certainly be a very dramatic turn of events that will have severe repercussions on the crisis, on the Palestinian cause on Egypt's security, and we will deal with it. Nick Schifrin: What do you ...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Egypt is building a wall and is leveling land near its border with the Gaza Strip ahead of a planned Israeli offensive targeting the border city of Rafah, satellite images analyzed Friday by The Associated Press show. Egypt, which has not publicly acknowledged the construction ...
... same kind of leadership today, and it is currently lacking in the Israeli government,” said Paige Alexander, chief executive of the Carter Center. What is Egypt's current position? Two Egyptian officials and a Western diplomat told The Associated Press on Sunday that Egypt may suspend the peace treaty if ...
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