Egypt laments lack of 'will' to resolve Palestinian conflict
The Egyptian President lamented today that there is a lack of political will in the international community to resolve the Palestinian conflict and accused Israel of committing a massacre in the Gaza Strip and of forcibly displacing the population of the territory.
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In his speech at the Arab League summit in Bahrain, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said that "there is no real international political will to end the occupation" of Israel in Palestine, nor "to address the roots of the conflict through the two-state solution".
The Egyptian President argued that the region is at a "decisive moment", between the "unfortunate inability" of the international community to stop the siege and the massacres attributed to Israel, which "continues to evade its responsibility" for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip between the forces of Tel Aviv and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.
"Egypt will maintain its firm position, in fact and in word, rejecting the resolution of the Palestinian question and the forced displacement of the Palestinians," said al-Sisi, who warned those who believe in military solutions to achieve security in the region that "they are mistaken".
For the leader of Egypt, one of the mediating countries in the negotiations for a truce between Israel and Hamas, "all future generations, whether Palestinian or Israeli, deserve a region where justice is achieved, peace and security prevail, a region where hopes for the future overcome the pain of the past".
In turn, King Abdullah II of Jordan warned of attempts to expel the Palestinians from their homes in the Gaza Strip, as well as to separate the enclave and the West Bank.
"The war must stop and the world must assume its moral responsibility to end a conflict that has lasted for more than seven decades," he also appealed at the Arab League summit.
The monarch of Jordan, a neighboring country of Israel and Palestine, and which hosts more than two million Palestinian refugees, stressed that "the destruction that Gaza is witnessing today will have important consequences for generations who have experienced death and injustice" and that they will need "years to recover".
Similarly, Abdullah II referred to the need to mobilize all necessary international mechanisms to ensure that the displacement of the Palestinians and the "separation between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip" are avoided.
On the other hand, he stressed that Jordan will continue to work to "preserve the historical and legal status" of Jerusalem, protecting and caring for its Muslim and Christian holy places, based on the agreement ratified with Israel in 1994.
The Arab League summit is being dominated by the conflict in the Gaza Strip, which began on October 7 with a Hamas attack on Israel, which left almost 1,200 dead and about 250 people taken hostage.
Since then, Israel has been carrying out a large-scale offensive in the Palestinian enclave, which has already caused more than 35,000 deaths, mostly civilians, according to local authorities, controlled by Hamas, and has plunged the territory into a serious humanitarian crisis.
Negotiations for a truce, mediated by Egypt and Qatar, are at a standstill, as Israel carries out a military operation in Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, where thousands of displaced Palestinians are located.
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