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Cairo fears that Israel is continuing its efforts to displace the Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, pushing them by various means towards Egyptian territory and other nearby countries. Israel Hayom newspaper published this week a report saying Israel submitted a new initiative to the US Congress calling for conditioning American aid to Arab countries on their willingness to receive refugees from Gaza.
A ministerial committee assigned by the Arab-Islamic summit began an international move to stop the war on Gaza. The foreign ministers of member states headed to China, the first leg of a tour that includes a number of major countries. Diplomats and experts, who spoke to Asharq Al-Awsat, expressed their confidence in the committee’s role to persuade Western countries to change their position towards Israel, and to put pressure on the Israeli government to stop the aggression that has been ongoing for more than a month against Gaza.
Political, economic and parliamentary movements between Egypt and Iran have increased the chances of improving ties between the two countries, heralding the return of relations between Cairo and Tehran.