The Egyptian presidency confirmed on Saturday that it will never accept claims to liquidate the Palestinian cause.

The Egyptian presidency stressed in a press statement shortly after the summit called for by the Republic of Egypt with the participation of leaders, heads of government and envoys of a number of regional and international countries, to consult and consider ways to advance efforts to contain the worsening crisis in the Gaza Strip, that it will always maintain its firm position in support of Palestinian rights and belief in peace. As a strategic option, there is no neutrality or retreat from it, until the vision of a solution of two Palestinian and Israeli states, living next to each other in peace, is achieved.

It indicated that, through her invitation to this summit, she sought to stop the ongoing war that has claimed the lives of thousands of civilians, respect the rules of international law and international humanitarian law, give special priority to the access and guarantee of the flow of humanitarian and relief aid and its delivery to those who deserve it from the people of the Gaza Strip, and warn of the dangers of The extension of the current conflict to other areas in the region.

It added that the summit aimed to launch a global call for peace that emphasizes the importance of re-evaluating the pattern of international dealing with the Palestinian issue over the past decades, and emerges with a new will that paves the way for launching a real and serious peace process that will lead, in the near future, to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on the June 4 borders. 1967, with East Jerusalem as its capital.

The Egyptian presidency said that the ongoing war has revealed a defect in the values of the international community in dealing with crises. While we see rushing and competing to quickly condemn the killing of innocent people in one place, we find an incomprehensible hesitation in condemning the same act in another place. Rather, we find attempts to justify this killing, as If the life of the Palestinian human being was less important than the life of other human beings.

It called on the international community to respond to the extent of the seriousness of the event, as Palestinian human rights are not excluded from those covered by the rules of international humanitarian law or international conventions concerned with human rights. The Palestinian people must enjoy all the rights enjoyed by other peoples, starting with the supreme right, which is the right to life, and their right to find safe housing, adequate health care, and education for their children... and to have, above all, a state that embodies their identity and to which they are proud to belong.

Egypt stressed that it will spare no effort in continuing to work with all partners in order to achieve the goals that called for holding this summit, regardless of the difficulties or the length of the conflict.