The Egyptian-European summit stressed the need for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and for Israel to end its hostilities.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi said that the Palestinian issue and the war on the Gaza Strip were at the top of the Egyptian-European summit talks, which stressed the inevitability of an immediate ceasefire and Israel ending its hostilities.

During the joint press conference with European leaders held at the Ittihadiya Palace on Sunday, President Sisi called for making more efforts to achieve an immediate and unconditional ceasefire, and to increase humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip to alleviate the severity of the humanitarian catastrophe that the Palestinians are experiencing.

The Egyptian President also confirmed that it was agreed with the President of the European Union Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, the Prime Minister of Belgium, the current President of the European Union, and the heads of state and government of Cyprus, Italy, Greece and Austria to reject Israel launching a military operation in Rafah, which will double the humanitarian catastrophe that is occurring. Civilians in the Gaza Strip suffer from it, in addition to the effects of this operation on liquidating the Palestinian cause, which Egypt rejects in its entirety.

Al-Sisi renewed Egypt's complete rejection of any attempts by Israel to forcibly displace the Palestinian people from their land occupied since 1967, including the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem.

He explained, we reviewed in detail the Egyptian efforts aimed at resolving the crisis while stressing the importance of dealing with the Palestinian issue from a comprehensive and integrated perspective that guarantees the rights of the Palestinians to establish their independent state on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital.

President Sisi stressed the need to unify our message to the international community to highlight that the suffering of the Palestinian people in the entire occupied Palestinian territory over the past decades will not stop except by recognizing the State of Palestine, granting it full membership in the United Nations, and working to implement the two-state solution in accordance with international references, and that procrastination in solving that problem will not stop. The issue exposes the region and the entire world to instability.

The discussions also addressed the importance of continuing to confront common challenges, most notably illegal immigration, where the commitment to combating this phenomenon was emphasized within the framework of existing cooperation, while including the development dimension in addressing it, in addition to strengthening regular migration paths.