AL-QUDS (Dispatches) – The Zionist regime’s finance minister confirmed on Tuesday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Egypt in May.
A spokesman for Netanyahu had declined to comment on the meeting after it was first reported on Monday by Israel’s Channel Ten News.
U.S. sources had earlier said that the Zionist prime minister and Sisi discussed the possibility of a long-term truce in the Gaza Strip and the potential return of the Palestinian Authority to the region on May 22.
The meeting was held several days after the May 14 deadly protests along the Gaza border against the opening of the U.S. embassy in al-Quds.
According to Gaza health officials, at least 58 Palestinians were shot dead and over 2,700 wounded by Zionist snipers who were positioned along the fence. An infant and a man succumbed to their injuries later bringing the total fatalities from the violence to 60.
Every year on May 15, Palestinians all over the world hold demonstrations to commemorate the day, which marks the anniversary of the forcible Zionist eviction of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homeland in 1948.
Also on Monday, Zionist war minister Avigdor Lieberman said that another round of fighting between the occupying regime and Palestinians in Gaza was unavoidable.
Apart from the months of tension along the border, there have also been three major military flare-ups between the regime and Hamas since July.
On Thursday, Palestinian officials confirmed that the resistance movement Hamas and the Zionist regime had agreed on a ceasefire mediated by Egypt to stop cross-border fire in the Gaza Strip.
The development comes after two days of the regime’s aerial raids against at least 150 positions in Gaza.
The regime in Tel Aviv says the airstrikes were launched after a long-range rocket fired from the Palestinian coastal sliver hit an uninhabited area to the south of the occupied Palestinian territories. Hamas has claimed responsibility for the rocket attack, stressing that they were in retaliation for the killing of two Palestinians by Israeli forces.