World Courant
ISTANBUL
Egypt denied on Monday experiences about preparations with the US to arrange a listing of Palestinian sufferers and college students to exit the Gaza Strip amid a lethal Israeli onslaught on the enclave.
Reviews had been circulated on social media a couple of cellphone name between Egyptian International Minister Sameh Shoukry and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to debate registering sufferers and college students in search of to depart Gaza.
“These experiences are groundless,” International Ministry spokesman Ahmed Abou Zeid mentioned in an announcement.
He added that there was no cellphone name between the 2 chief diplomats.
“It’s not true that there are any preparations of this sort,” he added, with out additional particulars.
Final month, the Israeli military captured the Palestinian aspect of the Rafah crossing, the enclave’s solely window to the surface world on Egypt’s border.
Ever since, the terminal has been closed, worsening the already troublesome humanitarian circumstances within the Palestinian territory.
Early Monday, Egypt’s state-affiliated Al-Qahera Information channel, citing a senior Egyptian supply, reiterated Egypt’s refusal to run the Rafah crossing in coordination with Israel.
Oblique talks between Israel and Hamas, mediated by Egypt, Qatar, and the US to succeed in a everlasting cease-fire deal in Gaza, have been deadlocked.
Israel, flouting a UN Safety Council decision demanding an instantaneous cease-fire, has confronted worldwide condemnation amid its continued brutal offensive on Gaza since an Oct. 7 assault final 12 months by Hamas.
Greater than 37,600 Palestinians have since been killed in Gaza, most of them girls and kids, and almost 86,100 others injured, in keeping with native well being authorities.
Greater than eight months into the Israeli warfare, huge tracts of Gaza lie in ruins amid a crippling blockade of meals, clear water, and medication.
Israel is accused of genocide on the Worldwide Court docket of Justice, whose newest ruling ordered it to right away halt its operation within the southern metropolis of Rafah, the place greater than 1 million Palestinians had sought refuge from the warfare earlier than it was invaded on Might 6.
*Writing by Ahmed Asmar
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