Egypt’s FM attacks Palestinian resistance

CAIRO, Feb. 19 (YPA) – Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry revealed on Sunday that his country has been suffered in Gaza for the first time since the start of the Israeli aggression on the Strip, amid conflicting Egyptian positions.

In his response to a question by former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni regarding the impossibility of peace with Israel entity, Minister Shoukry stated that his country believes that the resistance movement is outside the Palestinian consensus, calling for those who worked to strengthen its presence and financing to be held accountable.

Regarding his country’s position on the Israeli arrangements to invade Rafah, the last Palestinian shelter in the Gaza Strip, the minister renewed Egypt’s rejection to an Israeli-American plan to prepare safe places for civilians in reference to the evacuation of the displaced, considering talk of building a wall on the border with the Gaza Strip as “merely hypothetical.”

The Egyptian minister’s statements revealed the extent of Egypt’s confusion regarding the Gaza issue, as they reflected a desire to get rid of the resistance.

Egypt is leading negotiations between Hamas and Israeli entity, with the participation of Qatar and the United States, considering Hamas as another arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, which President Abd el-Fattah el-Sisi has led a coup against it for years.

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