Biden discusses Gaza ceasefire with Egyptian President el-Sisi New Israeli-Palestinian conflict

U.S. President Joe Biden has thanked Egypt for its “successful diplomacy” and its ceasefire with the United States over the 11-day Israeli military offensive and rocket launch against Israel in the Gaza Strip.

In a statement on Monday, the White House said Biden had discussed rebuilding efforts following the deadly attack on the besieged Palestinian territory, along with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.

“The two leaders consulted about the urgent need to provide humanitarian assistance to those in need in Gaza and to help the people there and not Hamas benefit from reconstruction efforts.” statement read.

Monday’s phone call came as Biden did sent U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has traveled to the region this week to meet with Israeli and Palestinian Authority (PA) leaders, as well as visit Egypt and Jordan.

The Biden administration expanded a lot pressureincluding within its Democratic Party, to urge Israel to agree to an immediate ceasefire in Gaza – but the US president and his top officials had he insisted that backward diplomacy was a better view.

They helped get a truce between Israel and Hamas that came into force in Egypt on Friday, and the country sent delegations to Tel Aviv and the occupied Palestinian territories to oversee the implementation of the agreement.

Last week, el-Sisi pledged $ 500 million to help rebuild Gaza.

Nearly 250 Palestinians, including dozens of children, were killed in an 11-day Israeli bombing in Gaza, injuring about 2,000 others, and destroying and destroying many buildings and critical infrastructure.

Rockets fired from the list by Palestinian armed groups killed at least 12 people in Israel, including two children.

Violence erupted with the intention of forcibly expelling Palestinian families from the occupied East Jerusalem, and attacks on Palestinian worshipers in the Al-Aqsa Mosque building sparked numerous protests in Jerusalem, the occupied West Bank, and within Israel.

Hamas, the Palestinian faction that rules Gaza, said it had begun firing rockets at Israel in response to Israeli repression.

The U.S. State Department said Blinken intends to focus on the trip to ensure a Hamas-Israel ceasefire and provide much-needed assistance to the Palestinians.

Blinken will “discuss key monitoring efforts to establish a ceasefire in the coming months and reduce the risk of further conflict,” the department said in a statement Monday.

Al Jazeera’s James Bays, who reported from West Jerusalem on Sunday, said “the main question in Blinken’s visit is whether it changes the Biden administration’s calculations.”

Since taking office, Biden and his top officials have tried to “prioritize” the Israel-Palestine issue among other foreign policy priorities. “Will that change and refocus negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians, and whether the US is actively pursuing them?” Bays asked.

Meanwhile, some progressive U.S. lawmakers are urging Washington to repeal a planned $ 735 million arms deal Recalibrate its relationship with the Israeli government as well as Israel.

Israel’s Gaza bombing was a growing impetus for Washington lawmakers to unconditionally question US military aid To Israel, a total of $ 3.8 billion annually.

Egypt is the second largest recipient of U.S. aid after Israel, ahead of human rights defenders push The Biden administration put pressure on el-Sisi, who directed a wide expanse repression about journalists, human rights defenders and perceived critics to improve the human rights history of his government.