Egyptian president warns military and the public to ‘rein in anger and outrage’ over the war
Egyptian president Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi speaking during a joint press conference with French president Emmanuel Macron following their talks in Cairo on October 25th, 2023. Photograph: Christophe Ena/pool/AFP via Getty Images
Sisi faces competing pressures. Speaking to troops deployed 15km from the border with Gaza, he warned the military and the public to “rein in anger and outrage” over the war. Thousands of Egyptians have protested against Israel’s onslaught on Gaza, while the Egyptian army has not responded. Sisi has refused to offer Gaza’s 2.2 million Palestinian civilians refuge from the war in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula, fearing they could settle permanently there. He has said that Israel can transfer Gazans to its Negev region where they can remain until the war ends and then return them to Gaza. Having absorbed millions of Palestinian refugees since Israel’s 1948 and 1967 wars, Jordan’s King Abdullah has adopted the same stance.
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