CAIRO, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) — An international peace summit began on Saturday in the new administrative capital east of Cairo, Egypt, with heads of state and ministers from several countries discussing ways to de-escalate the ongoing Israeli-Israeli conflict. Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
The conference, dubbed the Cairo Peace Summit, was called by Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi to address de-escalation of hostilities in Gaza, seek a ceasefire and seek a solution to Israel’s chronic conflict. Palestinians through the “two-state solution”.
“Egypt condemns the terrorization of civilians and expresses its dismay at the world’s response to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza,” Sisi said during his speech at the summit’s opening ceremony.
The Egyptian president rejected the expulsion of Palestinians into Egyptian territories and stated that without a just solution, the resolution of the Palestinian issue “will never happen and not at the expense of Egypt.”
Sisi stressed that a comprehensive and fair solution to the Palestinian issue must be achieved based on the “two-state solution.”
The summit is attended by about thirty Arab and Western leaders, including the Palestinian President, the King of Jordan, the Emir of Qatar, the President of the United Arab Emirates, the Prime Ministers of Italy, Spain, Greece and Canada, and the President of Cyprus. , among other things.
The summit will also be attended by the President of the European Council, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the Secretary General of the United Nations and the Chinese Government’s Special Envoy for Middle East Affairs.
Since October 7, Hamas and Israel have been engaged in a bloody confrontation in which more than 5,000 people have died on both sides.