Hebrew media reported, this evening, Wednesday, that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi refused to receive a phone call from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu due to disagreements between the two sides in light of the continued Israeli threats to carry out a military operation in the Rafah area and the Philadelphia axis located between Egypt. And the besieged Gaza Strip.

This came according to what Israeli Channel 13 reported in its evening bulletin, and it quoted two sources it described as “informed” that the National Security Council, affiliated with the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office, approached the Egyptian side with a request to coordinate a conversation between Netanyahu and Egyptian President Sisi, “to no avail.”

The channel pointed out that the last conversation between Sisi and Netanyahu took place last June, following the operation carried out by the Egyptian Central Security Officer, Mohamed Salah Ibrahim, in the border region in the south of the country, where he crossed the border and killed three Israeli soldiers, and wounded a fourth, in an exchange of gunfire. 

The channel reported that this comes against the backdrop of escalating disagreements with the Egyptian side over Israeli plans to deal with the Philadelphia Axis.

The channel pointed to intense, continuous and ongoing talks among professionals between senior Israelis and Egyptian intelligence chief Abbas Kamel, who is considered a key figure in Egypt and close to the right of President Sisi.

According to the channel, an official in Netanyahu’s office confirmed these details, but no official comment was issued.

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