CAIRO: Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and US Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns on Tuesday discussed efforts to reach a ceasefire in the Gaza war, the Egyptian presidency said.
“The president affirmed the Egyptian position rejecting the continuation of military operations in the Gaza Strip,” the presidency said in a statemet.
Senior US officials were in the region to push for a ceasefire after Hamas made concessions last week, but the Palestinian militant group said a new Israeli assault on Gaza on Monday threatened truce talks at a crucial moment and called for mediators to rein in Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The Egyptian delegation to the Gaza negotiations was intensifying efforts to bring closer the point of views of all the parties involved, Egypt’s state-affiliated Al-Qahera News cited a senior source as saying.
