Egyptian minister calls West's response to Gaza suffering shameful
[August 07, 2025]
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Egypt’s foreign minister, on a visit to
Greece on Wednesday, described the international response to the
escalating humanitarian crisis in Gaza as shameful and urged powerful
Western nations to increase pressure on Israel.
“The international community should be ashamed of the tragic situation
unfolding in Gaza and the devastating actions being carried out by
Israel,” Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty told reporters in
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Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty speaks to reporters with his
Greek counterpart George Gerapetritis after their meeting in Athens,
Greece, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) |
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“What is unfolding is a human tragedy, and the suffering
witnessed is a stain on the conscience of the international
community,” he said.
Widespread reports of hunger in Gaza have heightened
international concern over the devastating consequences of
Israeli military operations launched nearly two years ago,
following deadly attacks by Hamas-led militants inside Israel on
Oct. 7, 2023.
The Egyptian minister described Israel’s military campaign in
the territory as a “systematic genocide,” but reiterated his
government’s position that it “firmly rejects any displacement
of the Palestinian people from their ancestral lands.”
Abdelatty held a two-hour meeting with Greek Foreign Minister
Giorgos Gerapetritis to discuss a planned undersea electricity
grid connector between the two countries and an ongoing dispute
between Greece and Libya over sea boundaries for offshore oil
and gas exploration.
Greece and Egypt are also in talks over the legal status of the
sixth-century Monastery of Saint Catherine in Egypt’s Sinai
Desert.
Gerapetritis said that he had received assurances Wednesday of
Cairo’s continued cooperation on both issues.
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