Portugal thanked Egypt for supporting the withdrawal of the Portuguese, who have been in Gaza since the beginning of the conflict with Israel, and for its mediation in creating conditions for the ceasefire, the second day of which is celebrated this Saturday.
“Egypt’s role is fundamental and central [na questão do conflito na Faixa de Gaza]. I had the opportunity to thank my Egyptian colleague for the support he gave in the withdrawal of the Portuguese from the Gaza Strip,” Foreign Minister João Gomes Cravinho told Luca after meeting his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry in Cairo, next to his Slovenian counterpart Tania Fagno.
Eight citizens flagged by Portuguese authorities left the Gaza Strip on the 17th, and a minor whose mother and brothers were killed in the attack was expelled from the territory last week and taken to Portugal.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the exit of the citizens was “a complex operation carried out by the Egyptian authorities together with the Israeli authorities, with the assistance of a Portuguese team that arrived at the border to assist in the withdrawal.”
On the other hand, João Gomes Cravinho praised this Saturday the leadership that Egypt “has shown together with Qatar in creating the conditions so that we now have this temporary ceasefire, which we hope can be transformed into a permanent ceasefire” .
A permanent ceasefire would allow for “work on political dimensions,” an agreement to end the conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, and the provision of humanitarian aid to the population of the Gaza Strip.
This Saturday, Israel and Hamas celebrated the second day of a truce in hostilities following an agreement that saw the Islamist group release hostages and Palestinian prisoners through Tel Aviv.
On October 7, militants from the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), which has been in power in the Gaza Strip since 2007 and classified as a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union and Israel, carried out an attack on Israeli territory on a scale unprecedented since then. the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, which resulted in the deaths of 1,200 people, mostly civilians, 5,000 injuries and approximately 240 hostages.
In response, Israel declared a war to eradicate Hamas, which began with cuts in supplies of food, water, electricity and fuel in the Gaza Strip and daily bombings, followed by a ground offensive that encircled Gaza City.
The war between Israel and Hamas, which entered its 50th day this Saturday and threatens to spread throughout the Middle East region, has so far killed about 15,000 people in the Gaza Strip, most of them civilians, and more than 33,000 were injured. according to the latest local government report, and 1.7 million displaced, according to the UN.
In the West Bank and East Jerusalem, 200 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces or in settler attacks.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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