Egypt

CAIRO, Oct 29 (NNN-MENA) – At least 35 people were killed and 53 others injured, yesterday, in multiple vehicle collisions on a desert road, in Egypt’s Beheira governorate, state-run Ahram newspaper reported.

Security investigations showed the accident was caused by an oil leak from a car travelling on the Cairo-Alexandria desert road near Beheira, which led to many vehicles colliding with each other.

CAIRO, Oct 29 (NNN-MENA) – Egyptian President, Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, received a phone call from United Nations (UN) Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, yesterday, during which they discussed ways to protect civilians of the Palestinian Gaza Strip, facing an ongoing Israeli siege and bombardment.

The talks focused on “the ongoing diplomatic efforts to stop the escalation in the Gaza Strip,” said the Egyptian presidency in a statement.

CAIRO, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) -- At least six people were wounded in a blast related to the ongoing Israel-Gaza conflict early Friday in Taba, an Egyptian Red Sea resort town near the Israeli border, local media reported.

"The rocket targeted an ambulance facility and residential building of administrative workers of the Taba hospital," Egypt's Al Qahera News TV said, quoting sources as saying that the blast was related to Israel-Hamas conflict.

TV footage showed damage in the building.

CAIRO, October 26. /TASS/: Nine Arab countries have called on the UN Security Council to oblige the parties to the Middle East conflict to immediately cease fire.

CAIRO, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said on Wednesday that Egypt is playing a positive role to de-escalate the conflict between Israel and Hamas.

Sisi made his remarks during an inspection of the Third Field Army's Fourth Armoured Division in Suez province on the 50th anniversary of the October War victory, according to state-run Nile TV.

CAIRO, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- Arab League (AL) Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul-Gheit denounced Israel's recent condemnation of United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, the AL said in a statement on Wednesday.

"It is an attempt of moral and political blackmail," Aboul-Gheit made the remarks before his return to Cairo following his participation in the UN Security Council (UNSC) session in New York, which was dedicated to discussing the developments in Gaza.

CAIRO, Oct 24 (NNN-MENA) – The Egyptian Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation, announced yesterday, the launch of a new tripartite round of ministerial negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).

In a statement, the ministry said, the new round kicked off in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, yesterday morning, with the participation of delegations from Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia.

CAIRO, October 23. /TASS/: Hamas is ready to confront Israeli forces if they launch a ground operation in the Gaza Strip, said the Palestinian radical group’s spokesman Abdel-Latif al-Qanoua.

"[The Palestinian] resistance has unity and strength, as it can control combat operations and has a high level of readiness to resist any ground aggression in Gaza," al-Qanoua said in a statement, posted on Hamas’ Telegram channel.

RAFAH, Egypt, Oct 21 (NNN-MENA) – UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, yesterday visited the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with Gaza, ahead of the anticipated opening of the crossing, to bring needed aid into the besieged Palestinian enclave.

At the Rafah crossing, the only crossing point between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, Guterres said, the large convoy, loaded with food and medicine was “the difference between life and death for the (Palestinian) people.”

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt and Jordan harshly criticized Israel over its actions in Gaza at a summit on Saturday, a sign that the two Western allies that made peace with Israel decades ago are losing patience with its two-week-old war against Hamas.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi, who hosted the summit, again rejected any talk of driving Gaza’s 2.3 million Palestinians into the Sinai Peninsula and warned against the “liquidation of the Palestinian cause.” Jordan’s King Abdullah II called Israel’s siege and bombardment of Gaza “a war crime.”