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Egypt fears an expansion of combat to the Rafah area could push terrified Palestinian civilians across the border, a scenario Egypt has said it is determined to prevent.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden spoke Friday with his Egyptian and Qatari counterparts ahead of a trip by his CIA director meant to press toward a deal to secure the release of more hostages held by Hamas in exchange for a pause to fighting with Israel in Gaza. Watch the ...
... system, making sure that the region occupied now is basically uninhabitable, and pushing the majority of the population into a small, tiny portion at the Egyptian border. It was all meant to kind of nudge the population, if not outright forcibly expel it, into the Sinai. And now they're ...
The Egyptian proposal, worked out with the Gulf nation of Qatar, has been presented to Israel, Hamas, the United States and European governments but still appeared preliminary.
... since the terror attacks of Oct. 7. Amna Nawaz reports. ... Amna Nawaz: The top leader of Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, was in Cairo today speaking with Egyptian officials who are one set of mediators in talks that could renew a deal for a cease-fire and hostage swap in Gaza. In ...
... agencies against his campaign staff and supporters prevented him from reaching the voter threshold for candidacy. Ahead of the election, el-Sissi vowed to address Egypt's ailing economy, without offering specifics. Experts and economists widely agree the current crisis stems from years of mismanagement and lopsided economy, where private ...
The first group of around 1,000 civilians, including Americans, left Gaza after weeks of Israeli bombardment following the Hamas attacks. The deal struck among several nations also allows people badly wounded to be taken for treatment in Egypt. Leila Molana-Allen reports and speaks with a former Israeli spy chief about the Netanyahu government missing signals...
Israel issued a travel warning on Saturday, ordering its citizens to leave Egypt and Jordan — which made peace with it decades ago — and to avoid travel to a number of Arab and Muslim countries, including the United Arab Emirates, Morocco and Bahrain, which forged diplomatic ties with Israel in 2020 ...
... time, Egypt says a mass exodus from Gaza would bring Hamas or other Palestinian militants onto its soil. That might be destabilizing in Sinai, where Egypt's military fought for years against Islamic militants and at one point accused Hamas of backing them. Egypt has backed Israel’s blockade of ...
... and command centers and accuses the militants of hiding among civilians. Debre and Nessman reported from Jerusalem. Associated Press journalists Amy Teibel in Jerusalem; Samya Kullab in Baghdad; Abby Sewell in Beirut; Samy Magdy and Jack Jeffrey in Cairo; and Ashraf Sweilam in el-Arish, Egypt, contributed to this report.
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