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The President of Egypt and the Director of the CIA agreed to continue coordinating efforts to achieve a truce in the Gaza Strip

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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and CIA Director William Burns agreed on Tuesday. continue “intensive coordination” to achieve a truce in the Gaza Stripin the midst of high-level

The President of Egypt and the Director of the CIA agreed to continue coordinating efforts to achieve a truce in the Gaza Strip

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and CIA Director William Burns agreed on Tuesday. continue “intensive coordination” to achieve a truce in the Gaza Stripin the midst of high-level meetings in Cairo to reach an agreement, the Egyptian president said.

According to the statement, Al-Sisi and Burns met in Cairo along with Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel to “consider the development of the current situation” on negotiations to achieve a possible truce and an exchange of hostages for prisoners between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas.

William Burns, Director of the CIA. Photo: Reuters

In turn, “it was confirmed that consultations and intensive coordination will continue to contribute to achieving ceasefire goals, protection of civilians and activation of the two-state solution“, which involves the creation of an independent Palestinian state.

The implementation of all these points, according to the note, will serve to “establish security and stability in the region” of the Middle East, where tensions caused by the war in the Gaza Strip are growing.

Displaced Palestinians on the border with Egypt. Photo: Reuters

The CIA director expressed his “gratitude for Egypt’s tireless efforts to advance the path of calm in the Gaza Strip, ceasefire and prisoner exchange,” in addition to facilitating the flow of humanitarian aid into the besieged Palestinian enclave.

The meeting between Al-Sisi and Burns comes on a day when representatives of the CIA, Mossad and the Secret Service Israel’s Shin Bet is meeting in Cairo with representatives from Egypt and Qatar, as well as delegations from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), to discuss steps needed to reach a possible truce.

Displaced Palestinians in a camp in Rafah. Photo: Reuters.

Egyptian television network Al Qaera NewsA close to Egyptian intelligence said the meeting with various parties began at noon to discuss the issue of détente in the Palestinian enclave, without providing any further details so far.

This was reported by a source in the Egyptian security services. EFE that this session would discuss proposals presented by Hamas in response to a previous proposal created several weeks earlier in Paris as a result of negotiations between mediators, Qatar and Egypt, and the United States and Israel.

All this could lead to a two- or three-month cessation of hostilities, during which the prisoner exchange agreement will be implemented. and an attempt will be made to reach a permanent ceasefire and resume the peace process, the source said.

In the midst of these negotiations, the city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip, located at the southern tip of the Gaza Strip and on the border with Egypt, where more than 1.4 million internally displaced people live, was bombed for the first time by Israeli army artillery. .since the announcement of the ground invasion of the area.

(EFE)

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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