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Egypt’s Sisi: War in Gaza is threat to national security

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Monday that the Israel-Hamas war is a threat to national security.

"This ongoing war on our eastern borders, which calls for the mobilization of all our efforts to prevent its continuation, represents a threat to Egyptian national security in particular and to the Palestinian cause in general," Sisi said in a televised speech after winning a third term as president.

Egyptian president Abdel Fattah El-Sisi discussed in a phone call with the UN Secretary General António Guterres Egypt’s intensified efforts for Gaza ceasefire and entry of sufficient quantity of aid, the presidency said in a statement on Monday.