French President Emmanuel Macron announced an upcoming trilateral summit with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and Jordanian King Abdullah II, scheduled during his official visit to Egypt on Monday and Tuesday, a meeting prompted by the urgent and escalating situation in the Gaza Strip
President Macron stated via the “X” platform that this meeting comes within their joint efforts to address the humanitarian and security challenges in the Strip. President Macron is expected to arrive in Cairo on Sunday evening, followed by a bilateral meeting with President El-Sisi on Monday morning, with the trilateral summit taking place in the Egyptian capital on the same day, as announced by the Élysée Palace. The visit also includes President Macron’s travel to the city of Al-Arish, near the Gaza Strip, on Tuesday, where he will meet with officials in the humanitarian and security sectors, underscoring his ongoing efforts to achieve a ceasefire.
This diplomatic move occurs amidst the resumption of the Israeli occupation army’s military offensive on the Gaza Strip on March 18th, following a fragile two-month period of de-escalation between Hamas and Israel. In a related development, the military wing of Hamas released a video on Saturday showing two Israeli captives in Gaza, claiming their survival from Israeli shelling. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister of the Zionist entity, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his government insist that increasing military pressure is the sole means to compel Hamas to release the hostages held in Gaza, both living and deceased, a stance that contradicts the wishes of most families and relatives of these captives.
