2024-04-30 11:18:06
Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly confirmed on Monday that the situation will require decades for the Gaza Strip to return to what it was before the October 7 attack, while Jordanian Prime Minister Bisher Al-Khasawneh stressed the need to prevent the targeting of civilians wherever they are.
The two officials’ statements came in a dialogue session regarding Gaza on the sidelines of the Davos World Economic Forum in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.
The Egyptian Prime Minister said: “We will wait decades before returning to the situation that existed before October 7,” noting the destruction of buildings, hospitals, and more than 70 percent of the infrastructure in the Gaza Strip.
Madbouly confirmed that more than 85 percent of the aid that reached the Palestinians in Gaza was collected and sent by the Egyptian government and Egyptian civil society, and that the Rafah crossing “operates 24 hours a day,” according to what the Al-Ahram Gate website reported in his words.
For his part, Al-Khasawneh stressed the importance of protecting civilians and preventing them from being targeted “wherever they are,” adding that “what happened last October 7” is a direct result of seventy years of Israeli occupation and the refusal to recognize Palestinian rights, realize the aspirations and destiny of the Palestinian people, and establish their independent state on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital. “, according to what was reported by the Jordanian “Roya” website.
The war broke out following the unprecedented Hamas attack on areas and sites adjacent to the Gaza Strip on October 7, which resulted in the killing of 1,200 people, most of them civilians, including women and children, according to the Israeli authorities.
During the Hamas attack, more than 250 people were kidnapped, 129 of whom are still being held in the Gaza Strip, including 34 who likely died, according to Israeli officials.
In response to the attack, Israel pledged to “eliminate the movement” classified as terrorist in the United States and other countries, and has since carried out a bombing campaign followed by ground operations since October 27, killing more than 34,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, according to what it announced. Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Last updated: April 29, 2024 – 20:26
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