CAIRO (Dispatches) – The Zionist regime’s foreign minister Yair Lapid met with his Egyptian counterpart and President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Thursday, for talks on the besieged Gaza Strip, the two sides said.
The official spokesman for the Egyptian presidency said that the meeting dealt with a range of bilateral issues, particularly the Palestinian issue.
According to the presidency website, Sisi referred to Egypt’s efforts to rebuild the Gaza Strip, as well as his government’s continuing efforts to prevent an outbreak of tension between the Palestinian and Zionist sides.
Egypt was the first Arab country to sign a treaty with the occupying regime in 1979 and is one of the regime’s closest regional allies.
The visit comes a month after both countries struck a deal to boost the number of Egyptian troops around Rafah in the restive Sinai Peninsula.
Egypt’s Rafah crossing is the only passage to Gaza not controlled by the Zionist regime.
Egypt has served as a mediator between the Zionist regime and Palestinian Hamas resistance movement.
The bitter enemies have fought four wars since Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip in 2007, most recently an 11-day Zionist offensive on the Gaza Strip, which began on May 10 and killed at least 253 Palestinians, including 66 children, and wounded more than 1,900 people, according to the health ministry in Gaza.
Palestinians demand that the crippling Zionist-Egyptian blockade be eased, while the occupying regime is seeking the release of two Zionist captives and the remains of two dead troopers held by Hamas.