Bibi Meets Sissi on Gaza during UN Gathering Sidelines

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Another Arab country shamelessly carries on with normalization with the apartheid "Israeli" entity. “Israeli” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly on Wednesday to discuss the situation in the Gaza Strip and other regional developments.

A statement from Netanyahu’s office said the two leaders met for two hours in talks focused on the coastal enclave, where Egypt is working to broker a permanent ceasefire between the “Israeli” entity and Hamas.

Earlier this week, a senior Hamas official denied that Egyptian-brokered talks on reconciliation with the Palestinian Authority and a lasting truce with the entity have collapsed, but admitted progress was slow.

“The efforts of our Egyptian brothers continue on the file of Palestinian reconciliation and the calm with the (‘Israeli’) occupation,” the terror group’s spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri told AFP.

Egypt has for months been seeking to broker two separate deals.

One would bring Hamas and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party together a decade after a bloody split, and another would see a lasting truce between Hamas and the “Israeli” entity in exchange for a loosening of the blockade of the besieged Gaza Strip.

UN officials have also been involved in the indirect discussions between Hamas and the “Israeli” entity.

Both the “Israeli” entity and Egypt enforce a number of restrictions on the movement of people and goods into and out of Gaza. The entity says the blockade is necessary to keep Hamas and other resistance groups in the Strip from arming or building military infrastructure.

The talks come amid an uptick in violence along the Gaza border, which has witnessed the martyrdom of scores of Palestinian protesters calling for their right to return. Many of the protesters martyred were medics, nurses and activists.

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