Jordan’s King Abdullah and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi met in Cairo on Wednesday to discuss bilateral ties as well as the war in Gaza against Hamas, their offices say.
A press statement from Sissi’s office said the two leaders reject any potential move that would create an influx of Palestinian refugees and called on the international community to push for a ceasefire, increase more aid into Gaza, and work toward “a political track for a just and comprehensive settlement leading to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state” on the 1967 borders, with east Jerusalem as the Palestinian capital.
Egypt has made clear throughout this latest war that it does not want to take in a wave of Palestinian refugees.
Sissi previously warned that a mass influx of refugees from Gaza would eliminate the Palestinian nationalist cause, risk bringing terrorists into Sinai, where they might launch attacks on Israel, and endanger the Israel-Egypt 1979 peace treaty.
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