Egypt reiterates the need for Israel to withdraw from the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing

Egypt hosted a meeting in Cairo on Sunday with Israeli and US officials, which focused on opening the Rafah border crossing, which is crucial for humanitarian aid to enter Gaza, Egyptian media reported, without specifying whether an agreement had been reached. . On the occasion of this meeting, Cairo reiterated its denial that the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing is controlled by Israel, according to a “high-ranking official” cited by Al-Qahera News, a television network close to the Egyptian intelligence services. When the Israeli army began its ground operations on May 7 in Rafah, a town in the southern Gaza Strip bordering Egypt, it took control of the crossing point of the same name on the Palestinian side. The crossing is a key entry point for humanitarian aid into the war-ravaged Palestinian territory between Israel and Palestinian Hamas. Since then, the governments of Egypt and Israel have accused each other of […]
Source: News Beast

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