2024-05-15 11:32:23
On Tuesday, Cairo denounced statements by Israeli International Minister Yisrael Katz, which it thought-about held Egypt answerable for stopping a humanitarian disaster within the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli International Minister wrote on the “X” platform that “the world holds Israel answerable for the humanitarian file, however the important thing to stopping a humanitarian disaster in Gaza is now within the fingers of our Egyptian pals.”
The Israeli International Minister identified that he spoke with the British International Minister, David Cameron, and the German International Minister, Annalena Baerbock, about “the need of convincing Egypt to reopen the Rafah crossing, permitting the continued switch of worldwide humanitarian help to the Gaza Strip.”
For its half, the Egyptian Ministry of International Affairs mentioned that it rejects “the coverage of denying the details and shirking accountability adopted by the Israeli facet.”
The ministry mentioned in an announcement: “In response to the statements of the Israeli International Minister demanding the reopening of the Rafah crossing and holding Egypt answerable for stopping a humanitarian disaster within the Gaza Strip, Sameh Shoukry, the Egyptian International Minister, affirmed Egypt’s categorical rejection of the coverage of distorting the details and disavowing accountability adopted by the Israeli facet.” Stressing that Israel is solely answerable for the humanitarian disaster that the Palestinians are presently dealing with within the Gaza Strip.”
The Egyptian International Minister thought-about the Israeli management over the Palestinian facet of the Rafah crossing, and the Israeli army operations within the neighborhood of the crossing, “and the ensuing lives of reduction staff and truck drivers to imminent risks, as the principle motive for the lack to carry help by the crossing.”
Shukry strongly denounced “the determined makes an attempt by the Israeli facet to carry Egypt answerable for the unprecedented humanitarian disaster dealing with the Gaza Strip, which is a direct results of indiscriminate Israeli assaults in opposition to the Palestinians for greater than seven months, during which greater than 35,000 residents have been killed, most of them girls and youngsters.”
The Egyptian International Minister referred to as on Israel to satisfy its obligation because the occupying energy, by permitting help to enter by the land ports beneath its management.
A high-ranking Egyptian supply instructed native media that there is no such thing as a fact to what the Israeli International Minister mentioned about Egypt’s accountability for closing the Rafah crossing.
The supply added that the closure of the crossing got here “because of the unjustified escalation carried out by Israel within the Palestinian metropolis of Rafah,” in accordance with Al Hurra’s correspondent.
Cairo Information Channel quoted the senior supply as saying, “The closure of the Rafah crossing resulted from the Israeli escalation… and isn’t Egypt’s accountability.”
Relations between Egypt and Israel witnessed rigidity after the Israeli forces took management of the Palestinian facet of the Rafah crossing, as Cairo refused to coordinate with Israel within the entry of help from the Rafah crossing because of the “unacceptable Israeli escalation,” in accordance with what the Egyptian Cairo Information Channel reported on Saturday, quoting an Egyptian official. Skinny.
On Sunday, Egypt introduced it was becoming a member of South Africa within the lawsuit it filed earlier than the Worldwide Court docket of Justice in opposition to Israel on costs of committing the crime of “genocide.”
Throughout a telephone name on Monday with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, Shukri warned of “the dire humanitarian penalties that may have an effect on greater than 1.4 million Palestinians because of the closure of the Rafah crossing and the continuation of large-scale Israeli assaults.”
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