Egypt refuses to call 'Israel's' attacks self-defense
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Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry says exploiting civilians as targets by "Israel" and its attempts to forcefully displace Palestinians "cannot be considered a right to self-defense."
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Egypt's Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry speaks during a joint press conference with the Turkish Foreign Minister in Cairo on October 14, 2023. (AFP)
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry relayed Egypt's refusal on Saturday to legitimize "Israel's" actions as self-defense, as they are killing civilians of Gaza and are unjustified.
During a joint press conference with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Al-Safadi, Shoukry said, "There can be no justification for the deaths of civilians in Gaza ... We will not accept attempts to justify these actions as a legitimate right to self-defense."
He further added that exploiting civilians as targets by "Israel" and its attempts to forcefully displace Palestinians "cannot be considered a right to self-defense."
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On his part, Al-Safadi affirmed that other Arab nations echoed Shoukry's view in refusing to consider "Israel's" actions "self-defense."
This follows yesterday's high-profile meeting in Amman, which hosted the foreign ministers of Jordan, Egypt, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and the Palestinian Authority to coordinate a ceasefire in Gaza. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken later joined in.
Blinken expressed pain over the killings of whom he called innocent Palestinians, yet only after he reiterated "Israel's" right to "defend itself", which means continued indiscriminate bombing.
“Did you see the wound on my hand, my brother? Look at it with your eyes so that we can tell the world together about what happened to us in Gaza.”
— Al Mayadeen English (@MayadeenEnglish) November 4, 2023
A heartbreaking video of two surviving children from the Al-Maghazi refugee camp massacre the Israelis committed tonight.… pic.twitter.com/CItfGHVFJf
Not even past the light of day
In the latest, the spokesperson for the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Ashraf Al-Qudra, confirmed shortly after midnight today that 47 individuals were martyred, and several have been wounded as a result of the massacre committed by the Israeli occupation in Al-Maghazi Refugee Camp.
Al-Qudra noted that a significant number of serious injuries had accumulated on the ground outside the emergency department of the Indonesian Hospital: adding that the majority of the martyrs and wounded from the Al-Maghazi massacre were children and women.
