Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi said on Saturday that his country is keen for the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip to remain open 24 hours a day for the entry of humanitarian aid of “any size,” adding: “I assure you that the crossing will not be closed.”< /p>

Al-Sisi indicated in a speech during the armed forces’ educational symposium on the anniversary of “Martyr’s Day” that the cost of rebuilding Gaza will exceed 90 billion dollars.

He added in his speech: “For months, the world has been witnessing a major tragedy next to us in Palestine, where thousands of martyrs have fallen in the Gaza Strip and the living among them are exposed to unprecedented human suffering,” stressing: “We are exerting the utmost effort and energy we can to protect them and provide relief through a ceasefire.” Fire and providing assistance to them.”

He directed his speech to the Palestinian people, saying: “Your affliction is our affliction, and your pain is our pain, and Egypt will not hesitate to continue working to achieve a ceasefire, bring in aid, and relieve those afflicted by this enormous disaster. Egypt will not stop working, whatever the cost, for the sake of the brotherly Palestinian people.” on his legitimate rights in his independent state.”

The Egyptian President touched on humanitarian aid, saying that it “enters the Gaza Strip, whether Egyptian or foreign, and in any size, whenever there is any opportunity to do so,” noting that Egypt drops aid into the Gaza Strip by air because of the difficulties it faces in bringing it in by land.

No displacement of Palestinians

The Egyptian President added: “I asked the institutions to estimate the cost of reconstruction in Gaza, which is inhabited by 2.3 million Palestinians. The cost is estimated at more than 90 billion dollars in order for the sector to restore its infrastructure to become fit to live in.”

He continued: “Someone could have told me that I would have taken the 2.3 million (transferring the population of Gaza) to Sinai, as the land is large and things will be resolved,” stressing, “We may betray those whose blood you see as countries. The land is our land and our country. We are responsible to protect it as It is thousands of years old. These are its limits and no one will neglect anything (no one will neglect it).”

An international coalition with the participation of Egypt

On Thursday, the Egyptian army spokesman announced Egypt’s participation in an “international coalition” to drop humanitarian aid and relief aid “by air” into the Gaza Strip.

The military spokesman said in a statement that “members of the Egyptian Air Force in the international coalition are participating in dropping aid on Gaza from Jordan.”

He explained that the Egyptian Air Force “is cooperating with its counterparts from the Jordanian, American, French, Dutch, and Belgian air forces to carry out air drops of tons of urgent humanitarian and relief aid to the affected areas in the northern Gaza Strip.”