Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan expressed their rejection on Saturday of Israel’s decision to fully re-occupy the Gaza Strip.
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The statement came during their meeting in El Alamein city, northwest Egypt, according to official sources from both countries.
The Egyptian presidency said in a statement that Sisi and Fidan discussed "developments in several regional issues, foremost among them the situation in the Gaza Strip."
Regarding the Israeli actions in Gaza, they affirmed their rejection of the military re-occupation of the Strip, the urgent need to immediately ceasefire, allow humanitarian aid access, and secure the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners, stressing their firm opposition to the displacement of Palestinians.
On Friday dawn, the Israeli Security Cabinet approved a "gradual" plan proposed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to occupy the entire Gaza Strip.
The statement added that Sisi praised the qualitative development in Egyptian-Turkish relations, especially after the signing of the joint declaration in February 2024 to reactivate the high-level Strategic Cooperation Council meetings and raise them to the leaders’ level.
Both sides emphasized the necessity of enhancing economic cooperation between Egypt and Turkey, aiming to reach a trade volume of $15 billion and expanding Turkish companies’ participation in investment projects within Egypt.
They also discussed developments in Libya, Syria (after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in late 2024), and Sudan (following the fighting between the army and Rapid Support Forces since April 2023).
Sisi stressed the importance of achieving peace and stability in these brotherly countries and Egypt’s efforts in that regard.
Sisi received Fidan during the latter’s official visit to Egypt, whose duration was unspecified, according to a statement by the Turkish Foreign Ministry on the platform X (formerly Twitter).
— Anadolu Agency
