February 12,
2024
It is being
widely reported based on press leaks that the Egyptian government of President
Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has privately threatened Israel. Cairo is said to have
warned that the 1978 Camp David Peace Treaty will be suspended “with immediate
effect” if the government of Binyamin Netanyahu tries to take over the
Philadelphi Corridor at the Gaza-Egypt Border and if it expels the Palestinians
of Gaza into Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula at the Rafah border crossing as a result
of an invasion of Rafah City. Israel attempted to convince an Egyptian
delegation to Tel Aviv on Friday that Cairo should cooperate with the Israeli
war plan, but allegedly was rebuffed.
