A press report reveals a “strict rejection” in the Egyptian military establishment of Washington’s efforts to persuade Cairo to receive refugees from the besieged Gaza Strip, in light of the temptations and facilitations offered by the American administration and Western parties to the Egyptian regime.

US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, failed to reach understandings with Arab foreign ministers in Amman, yesterday, Sunday, on “one agreed upon vision” regarding the management of the besieged Gaza Strip after the war that Israel has been waging for 31 days on the Gaza Strip, while He renewed Washington's attempts to pressure Cairo to agree to receive refugees from the Gaza Strip, which was met with "strict rejection from the Egyptian military establishment."

This came according to what Al-Araby Al-Jadeed newspaper reported on Monday, citing Egyptian sources familiar with Cairo’s movements regarding the Israeli aggression, following the meeting that brought together Blinken with his Egyptian, Jordanian, Saudi, Qatari and Emirati counterparts in the Jordanian capital, with the participation of the Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

Blinken failed to discuss options for managing the sector

The sources pointed out that Blinken “failed to reach a single agreed-upon vision, due to the discrepancy in positions between Washington and some Arab parties attending the meeting,” while an Egyptian diplomat who spoke to the newspaper explained that Blinken’s visit to Amman was primarily aimed at discussing “scenarios for managing the Gaza Strip in Following the end of the Israeli aggression.”

He explained that Blinken's efforts were rejected by 3 parties participating in the meeting, and the Egyptian diplomat indicated that "some participants assured Blinken of the impossibility of completely eradicating the Hamas movement from Gaza, which means that the war must end first, so that thinking can begin in light of Its results, and an estimate of the magnitude of the force of the movement at that time.”

The newspaper quoted another source as saying that Cairo had received “a new proposal regarding hosting numbers of residents of the Gaza Strip,” saying that “the new proposal came beyond Egyptian fears, announced through officials in Cairo, about the possibility of those who will move from the Gaza Strip to Sinai representing a subsequent threat to Egyptian security.” If they launch attacks on the Israeli occupation from within Egyptian territory.”

The source explained, "The new proposal included transferring the numbers that could be agreed upon to the west of the Suez Canal by distributing them to the canal governorates, represented by Port Said, Suez, and Ismailia, and not to the east of the canal as was proposed to settle them in Sinai."

The source added, "All of these scenarios are met with strict rejection by the Egyptian military establishment, which refuses to respond to any of the proposals to resettle the population of the Gaza Strip or part of them in Egypt, regardless of the temptations and facilities offered by the American administration and Western parties."

The Al-Araby Al-Jadeed source revealed that “European circles have proposed, over the past few days, providing direct concessions to the Egyptian military establishment, in an attempt to move its position in favor of the proposals to dislocate the Gaza Strip for the benefit of Israel’s security.”

He explained that "Western proposals included supplying the Egyptian army with types of weapons that it had entered into negotiations over during the recent period, including air defense systems and American F-35 fighters, which are the fighters that Cairo had applied to obtain during the era of former US President Donald Trump." But that deal was halted after American circles and Israeli objections rejected it.”

The source stressed that the Egyptian military establishment “still categorically rejects the idea itself, despite the temptations offered to it in this regard,” as he put it. On the other hand, he pointed out that Tel Aviv and Washington “have not lost hope of passing their project aimed at dislocating the Gaza Strip.” And reduce the level of his threat to Israeli security.

Blinken: There will be no ceasefire until the Hamas leaders are eliminated

Returning to the foreign ministers’ meeting in Amman, an Egyptian diplomat said, “The majority of participants in the meeting confirmed that if there was something that could be agreed upon during this meeting, it was to stop the war as quickly as possible.”

He stated that Blinken “responded to that point with the difficulty of Israel stopping the war before arriving and eliminating the leadership of the Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip,” naming a number of them, most notably the head of the movement’s political bureau in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, and Marwan Issa, who is known as the chief of staff of the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas. He is also considered the second-in-command in the brigades, in addition to the commander-in-chief of the Al-Qassam Brigades, Muhammad Al-Deif.”

The source said, "The only part that can be said to have been agreed upon among those present is the increase in the number of infected people who must be removed from the Gaza Strip as soon as possible to receive treatment abroad."