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  • Gaza: Guterres urges all parties on ceasefire agreement

    Gaza: Guterres urges all parties on ceasefire agreement
    Ceasefire
    Cairo, June 11, 2024 (dpa/NAN) UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has urged all parties involved in the war in Gaza to reach a ceasefire agreement.
    “The horror must stop, it’s high time for a ceasefire along with unconditional release of hostages,” he told a humanitarian aid conference for the Gaza Strip held by the Dead Sea in Jordan.
    “I urge all parties to seize this opportunity and come to an agreement,” Guterres added.
    “The speed and scale of carnage and killing in Gaza is beyond anything in my years as Secretary General,” he said.
    “Nowhere is safe, conditions are deplorable.”
    The conference is organised by Jordan, Egypt and the UN.
    It aims to find ways in which the international community can respond more effectively to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. (dpa/NAN) (www.nannews.ng)
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    Edited by Ummul Idris/Ekemini Ladejobi

  • Egypt’s Sisi, Blinken agree to intensify efforts toward Gaza ceasefire

    Egypt’s Sisi, Blinken agree to intensify efforts toward Gaza ceasefire
    Ceasefire
    Cairo, June 10, 2024 (Xinhua/NAN)  Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken agreed on Monday to intensify efforts to reach a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
    In a meeting in the Egyptian capital Cairo, Sisi and Blinken reviewed the latest developments pertinent to joint efforts to reach a ceasefire in Gaza as well as a hostages-prisoners swap between Israel and Hamas.
    The meeting also discussed Egyptian efforts to secure access to humanitarian aid for the people of Gaza, the Egyptian presidency said in a statement.
    Sisi emphasised the importance of international cooperation to remove obstacles to the delivery of humanitarian aid, and the necessity to end the war in the region and prevent the escalation of conflict.
    He said the two-state solution should be implemented.
    The Israeli army launched a military operation in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah in early May, then took control of the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt.
    The move led to the closure of the vital crossing, with Egypt demanding Israeli withdrawal to resume the crossing’s operation.
    During the talks, Blinken expressed the U.S. appreciation for Egypt’s ongoing efforts on both the political and humanitarian tracks and its commitment to continuing work and coordination with Egypt to restore security and peace to the region.
    The United States, Egypt, and Qatar managed to mediate a week-long Israel-Hamas truce in late November 2023.
    However, Israel and Hamas, engaged in a deadly confrontation in Gaza since October 2023, failed to reach another ceasefire agreement after talks in Cairo in May.  (Xinhua/NAN) (www.nannes.ng)
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    (Edited by Ummul Idris/Emmanuel Yashim)