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☆ Washington’s Arab allies engage with Iran as US efforts to stem Middle East violence falter
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-22 | by ( Mostafa Salem | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Abu Dhabi, UAE CNN —Growing unease over the United States’ inability to de-escalate tensions in the Middle East is prompting some of Washington’s closest Arab allies to significantly increase engagement with its primary regional adversary: Iran. Arab nations that had spent decades brawling with Iran for regional influence are now opting to engage with it again. Despite seeing an opportunity to weaken Iran’s regional influence, Arab nations are now signaling neutrality. “The Gulf (Arab) monarchies’ priority is not to be directly involved in a proper regional conflagration. Still, regional states rely heavily on their military relationship with the US.

Persons: State Anthony Blinken, Yahya Sinwar, Israel, Blinken’s, Hassan Nasrallah, Ismail Haniyeh, Prince Mohamed bin Salman, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hitler, ”, Abbas Araghchi, Jordan’s King Abdullah II, Abdel Fattah Al, ” Araghchi, Crown Prince Sabah, Cinzia Bianco, ” Kuwaiti Crown Prince Sheikh, ” Kuwaiti Crown Prince Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al, Hamad Al, ” Hasan Alhasan, Biden, Benjamin Netanyahu, “, ” Anwar Gargash, Joe Biden’s, Abu, ” Bianco, Jake Sullivan Organizations: UAE CNN, State, Saudi Arabia’s, Iranian, Saudi, Bahraini, Crown, CNN, European Council, Foreign Relations, ” Kuwaiti Crown, Kuwait News Agency, Reuters, Middle, International Institute for Strategic Studies, Israeli, United Arab Emirates, US, US National, Atlantic Festival Locations: Abu Dhabi, UAE, United States, Washington’s, Iran, Republic, Israel, Gaza, Lebanon, Tehran, Riyadh, Tehran’s, Amman, Egypt, Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, Cairo, Doha, Muscat, Manama, Crown Prince, Crown Prince Sabah Al, Sabah, Kuwait City, Islamic Republic, ” Kuwaiti Crown Prince Sheikh Sabah, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Saudi, Washington, Yemen, China, Washington ,

☆ Russia Turns to Longtime Arms Customers to Boost War Arsenal
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Thomas Grove | Summer Said | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Russia has sought to retrieve parts from defense systems it had exported to countries such as Pakistan, Egypt, Belarus and Brazil, as it tries to replenish the enormous stocks of weapons being expended for the war in Ukraine. Last April, a delegation of Russian officials visiting Cairo asked Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi to give back more than a hundred engines from Russian helicopters that Moscow needed for Ukraine, three people with knowledge of the incident said. Sisi agreed and deliveries of about 150 engines are likely to start next month, say the people.

Persons: Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, Sisi Locations: Russia, Pakistan, Egypt, Belarus, Brazil, Ukraine, Cairo, Moscow

☆ Egyptians Protest in Support of Palestinians
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Menna Farouk | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Protests took place across Egypt, including in Cairo, as Egyptians pushed for Palestinian rights and rallied in support of their government's stance on the conflict, according to live video footage by Al Qahera. The Egyptian state-run TV channel broadcasted demonstrations in nine governorates, as well as in several locations in the capital. They also chanted in support of President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, who has resisted the idea of allowing people from Gaza through the border to Egypt. Protests are planned elsewhere in the Middle East. Protests are also planned in Jordan.

Persons: Al Qahera, Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, Moqtada al, Sadr Locations: Egypt, Cairo, Gaza, Jordan

☆ Human Rights Watch Says Pledge to Allow Aid to Gaza Falls Short
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

“Israel’s bombardment and unlawful total blockade of Gaza mean that countless wounded and sick children, among many other civilians, will die for want of medical care,” Bill Van Esveld, associate children’s rights director at the rights group said in a statement. Electricity, food and fuel supplies into the Palestinian enclave from Israel were stopped after the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas militants from Gaza. President Biden said Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi agreed to open the gates to the Rafah border crossing, where trucks carrying aid to the Gaza Strip have been waiting. Biden said up to 20 trucks of humanitarian assistance to Gaza will be allowed through.

Persons: Bill Van Esveld, Biden, Abdel Fattah Al Sisi Locations: Gaza, Israel, Rafah

☆ World Health Organization: Trucks Are Loaded and Ready to Go
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The head of the World Health Organization welcomed Israel's announcement that it wouldn't block entry of water, food and medicine into Gaza through Egypt, and called on Israel to allow fuel into the enclave as well. "Fuel is also needed for hospital generators, ambulances and desalination plants," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a news briefing on Thursday. Damage to the border between Gaza and Egypt has delayed the passage of aid into the enclave, after Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi told President Biden he would allow aid through. "Our trucks are loaded and ready to go," Ghebreyesus said. "We are working with the Egypt and Palestine Red Crescent Societies to deliver our supplies into Gaza as soon as the Rafah crossing is opened, hopefully tomorrow."

Persons: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, Biden, Ghebreyesus Organizations: World Health Organization, WHO, Palestine Red Crescent Societies Locations: Gaza, Egypt, Israel, Palestine, Rafah

☆ What's Stopping Aid Getting Into Gaza?
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Before leaving Israel on Wednesday, President Biden said he spoke by phone with Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi who agreed to open his country's border crossing with Gaza. Doing so would allow roughly 20 trucks carrying humanitarian aid to enter Gaza, Biden said. But officials in Gaza say they haven't been notified about when the aid would arrive or how it would be distributed. There is also the question of damaged roads around the Rafah border crossing, which has suffered four strikes since the war began. The capacity of 20 trucks amounts to about one eighth of what aid workers estimate is required to meet the needs of 1.7 million people now gathered in southern Gaza.

Persons: Biden, Abdel Fattah Al Sisi Organizations: Israel, Wednesday Locations: Gaza, Rafah

☆ Egypt's President Says Israel Can Host Palestinian Refugees in Negev Desert
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( Fatima Abdulkarim | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi said that Israel could move Palestinians affected by the fighting in Gaza to the desert in southern Israel instead of asking Cairo to host them. Egypt is opposed to hosting any Palestinians on its territory despite coming under intense pressure to allow refugees to cross the border to the Sinai Peninsula to escape an Israeli bombing campaign and expected ground invasion. “If the Palestinians are transferred to Egypt...Sinai will be a base for operations against Israel and in this case, Egypt will be labeled as a base for terrorists,” he said. In 1948, after the creation of Israel, tens of thousands of Palestinians flooded into Egypt, turning the town of Rafah into a refugee camp.

Persons: Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, Israel, ” Organizations: Israel Locations: Gaza, Israel, Cairo, Egypt, Sinai, Rafah

☆ Aid Trucks Wait at Rafah Crossing as It Remains Closed
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Several trucks carrying aid to the Gaza Strip were still waiting outside the Egyptian gates to the Rafah border crossing on Wednesday, as an effort to get them through remained stalled. The gates of the only crossing into Gaza not controlled by Israel remained shut following an Israeli strike on Monday that injured four Egyptian workers, Egyptian officials said, who added that Israeli airstrikes make it unsafe to open the border crossing. Earlier Wednesday, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi said the country was continuing to receive humanitarian aid and was committed to transporting it to the strip. Dozens of Egyptians staged a sit-in in front of the Rafah crossing on Wednesday to protest the displacement of Palestinians into Egypt and to call for humanitarian aid to be allowed into Gaza.

Persons: Abdel Fattah Al Sisi Locations: Gaza, Rafah, Israel, Egypt

☆ Biden Says Egypt to Allow Gaza Aid Trucks Through Rafah Crossing
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-18 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

President Biden said Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi has agreed to open the gates to the Rafah border crossing, where trucks carrying aid to the Gaza Strip have been waiting. Biden said up to 20 trucks of humanitarian assistance to Gaza will be allowed to go through. That is about one eighth of what aid workers estimate is required to meet the needs of 1.7 million people now gathered in south Gaza. Egyptian officials acknowledged they had reached an agreement but said there was no mechanism yet to move aid over the border and noted that the Rafah crossing had been destroyed in an Israeli airstrike and needed to be repaired. Biden acknowledged the roads would first need to be repaired and that assistance might not begin moving into Gaza until later in the week.

Persons: Biden, Abdel Fattah Al Sisi Organizations: Washington , D.C, Tel Aviv ., United Nations Locations: Rafah, Gaza, Washington ,, Tel Aviv, United

☆ Palestinian Authority Leader Abbas Cancels Meeting With Biden
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas canceled his scheduled meeting this week with President Biden, senior Arab officials said, following an explosion at a Gaza hospital that Palestinian health officials say killed more than 500 people. Biden had been scheduled to meet with Abbas in Amman, Jordan, after his visit to Israel on Wednesday. Biden was also expected to meet with Jordanian King Abdullah and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi in Amman to discuss humanitarian efforts and other elements of the conflict. The cancellation by one of Biden’s principal interlocutors in the region threw into question whether he would follow through with the visit.

Persons: Mahmoud Abbas, Biden, Abbas, King Abdullah, Abdel Fattah Al Organizations: Wednesday Locations: Gaza, Amman, Jordan, Israel, Abdel Fattah Al Sisi

☆ Jordan cancels summit with Biden, Sisi and Abbas in Amman
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Suleiman Al-Khalidi | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

AMMAN, Oct 18 (Reuters) - Jordan has cancelled a summit it was to host in Amman on Wednesday with U.S. President Joe Biden and the Egyptian and Palestinian leaders to discuss Gaza, Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said. Biden was expected to make a whirlwind trip to Israel where he would later head to Jordan and according to Jordanian officials meet Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al Sisi and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Jordan's peace treaty with Israel is widely unpopular among many citizens who see normalisation as a sellout of the rights of their Palestinian brethren. The Israeli embassy, where protesters gather daily, has long been a flashpoint of anti-Israel protests at times of turmoil in the Palestinian territories. Reporting by Suleiman Al-Khalidi; Additional reporting by Muath Freij; Editing by Grant McCoolOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Jordan, Joe Biden, Ayman Safadi, Safadi, Israel, Biden, Abdel Fattah al Sisi, Mahmoud Abbas, Jordan's King Abdullah, Abdullah, Suleiman Al, Khalidi, Muath Freij, Grant McCool Organizations: U.S, Gaza, Thomson Locations: AMMAN, Amman, Gaza, Israel, Jordan, Gaza ., Palestinian

☆ Jordan to host summit between Biden and Egyptian and Palestinian leaders
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Suleiman Al-Khalidi | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Jordan's King Abdullah II speaks as he meets British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, at Downing Street in London, Britain, October 15, 2023. REUTERS/Hannah McKay/Pool/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsSummary Jordan king to warn Biden against Israel 'transfer' policyKing sought to lobby for immediate delivery of aidAuthorities worried about spillover of violenceAMMAN, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Jordan on Wednesday will host a four-party summit in Amman with U.S. President Joe Biden and Egyptian and Palestinian leaders to discuss the "dangerous" repercussions of the war in Gaza for the region, officials said. Jordan's King Abdullah will also separately hold a tripartite summit with both Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al Sisi and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Officials said the monarch will stress to Biden on Wednesday that the country would resist any attempt to push Palestinian refugees into Jordan if conflict widens to the West Bank in a wider regional conflagration. Reporting by Suleiman Al-Khalidi; editing by Christina Fincher, Alex Richardson and Jonathan OatisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Jordan's King Abdullah II, Rishi Sunak, Hannah McKay, Biden, Israel, King, Joe Biden, Jordan's King Abdullah, Abdel Fattah al Sisi, Mahmoud Abbas, King Abdullah, Suleiman Al, Khalidi, Christina Fincher, Alex Richardson, Jonathan Oatis Organizations: British, REUTERS, Wednesday, Officials, West Bank, Senior, Hamas, Thomson Locations: London, Britain, AMMAN, Jordan, Amman, U.S, Gaza, Israel, East Jerusalem

☆ U.S. Will Send Humanitarian Envoy to Middle East
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-15 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The U.S. will send a senior diplomat to the Middle East to work on humanitarian issues amid Israel’s fight with Gaza, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said. David Satterfield, a former U.S. ambassador to Turkey, is expected to arrive in Israel as soon as Monday, Blinken said in Cairo after meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi.

Persons: Antony Blinken, David Satterfield, Blinken, Abdel Fattah Al Sisi Organizations: U.S Locations: Gaza, U.S, Turkey, Israel, Cairo

☆ Blinken to Return to Israel After Six-Stop Arab Tour
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-15 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will return to Israel for meetings with Israeli government officials on Monday following a tour of six Arab nations, a State Department spokesman said. Blinken met Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman early Sunday morning before flying to Cairo, where he is expected to sit down with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi to discuss Gaza border issues and ways to contain an expansion of violence in the region. Blinken is scheduled to arrive in Amman, Jordan, later Sunday.

Persons: Antony Blinken, Blinken, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Abdel Fattah Al Sisi Organizations: State Department, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Locations: Israel, Cairo, Gaza, Amman, Jordan

☆ Blinken Says Gaza Crossing Will Be Opened After Meeting With Egyptian Leader
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-15 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The border crossing between Gaza and Rafah, Egypt—a priority for the U.S. as it seeks to evacuate its citizens—will be reopened, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said after his meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi. “We have put in place, Egypt has put in place a lot of material support for people in Gaza, and Rafah will be reopened,” Blinken told reporters in Cairo. “We are putting into place—with the United Nations, with Egypt, with Israel, with others—the mechanism by which to get the assistance in and to get it to the people who need it.”

Persons: Antony Blinken, Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, ” Blinken, ” Organizations: United Nations Locations: Gaza, Rafah, Egypt, Cairo, “, Israel

☆ Egypt Urges Deescalation, Pledges to Protect Palestinians
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-12 | by ( Menna Farouk | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi called for a de-escalation of the conflict and said his country would "protect the capabilities" of the Palestinian people, although he didn't offer specific measures. "I call on all parties to prioritize the voice of reason and exercise self-restraint to prevent the breaking out of fires which could burn everyone," he said in a speech from Cairo. "Egypt is ready to coordinate with all parties without conditions to achieve an end to the conflict."

Persons: Abdel Fattah Al Sisi Locations: Cairo, Egypt

☆ Egypt, Syria in Advanced Talks to Restore Diplomatic Relations
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-01 | by ( Summer Said | Benoit Faucon | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad, left, and Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry met in Cairo on Saturday. Egypt and Syria are in advanced talks to restore full diplomatic relations more than a decade after ties broke down, people familiar with the matter say, as Arab states warm up to Damascus in fast-evolving developments that are reshaping the Middle East’s geopolitics. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad could meet soon after the Muslim holy month of Ramadan ends in late April, the people said. The date and location for a possible summit between the two leaders haven’t been completed, they added.

☆ Egypt Is Spending Billions on a New Capital That Egyptians May Not Visit
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-24 | by ( Chao Deng | Amira El-Fekki | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

CAIRO—In a desert plain 40 miles east of central Cairo, a sprawling new capital city is taking shape, with skyscrapers, luxury residences and pedestrian malls representing President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi ‘s vision of a modern Egypt, fueled by billions of dollars in debt to help see it through. Now comes the hard part: getting people to live and work there.

☆ American Arrested in Dubai at Risk of Deportation to Egypt
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-30 | by ( Stephen Kalin | Chao Deng | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

DUBAI—An American citizen arrested recently on a visit to the United Arab Emirates faces possible extradition to his native Egypt after criticizing Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi and calling on Egyptians to protest in videos he made while living in the U.S.Sherif Osman, 46, an Egyptian-American dual national, was one of a handful of Egyptians abroad urging people to organize demonstrations during a United Nations climate summit in November held in the Egyptian beach city of Sharm El Sheikh and attended by world leaders including President Biden.

☆ Egypt Keeps Tight Grip on Protests as Host of COP27 Climate Conference
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-07 | by ( Chao Deng | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Demonstrators have to navigate through a complex registration system to gain access to a limited “Green Zone” protest space outside the main COP27 conference area in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. SHARM EL SHEIKH, Egypt—Egyptian authorities have detained more than a hundred people in connection with demonstrations planned for the COP27 climate summit with rights groups saying the government appears increasingly concerned that protests could spill over into a broader display of dissent against President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi . Human Rights Watch, a New York-based nonprofit, on Sunday said that camera-surveillance networks had been set up in taxis in Sharm El Sheikh to monitor who is traveling around the town. It also pointed to a complex registration system to gain access to a limited “Green Zone” protest space outside the main conference as a further indication that Egyptian authorities are trying to limit free speech around the summit.

☆ Sen. Patrick Leahy Blocks $75 Million in Funding to Egypt, Citing Human Rights
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Chao Deng | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Human rights groups say Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi oversees one of the world’s worst crackdowns on human rights. CAIRO—A U.S. senator blocked $75 million in military funding this year to Egypt, citing insufficient progress on the country’s treatment of political prisoners, despite recent prisoner releases by President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi . Sen. Patrick Leahy (D., Vt.), chairman of the Senate appropriations committee, informed the State Department that he would put the money it approved on hold ahead of a Sept. 30 deadline for the release of the funds.

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