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This brief covers Thursday and Friday: citizenship stripped from two brothers who organised protests abroad, a journalist kept in detention after his co-defendants were released, a journalist cut off from his family, new deaths in “exchanges of fire”, a campaign against women content creators, and an investigation into a personal account.<\/p>\n

On public affairs: the pending IMF review, land to pay off debt, postponed raises, a postponed pensions ruling, an airport not yet offered, an extended licensing freeze, and electricity prices. On society: the railways after Ayyat, the old rent law, hourly teachers, and refugees. Regionally: the attacks towards Mecca, Sudan and Gaza.<\/p>\n

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Citizenship stripped from two Hague protest organisers for "naturalising without permission"<\/h2>\n

The Official Gazette published<\/a> yesterday, Thursday 12 November, two decisions by the prime minister stripping Egyptian citizenship from Tarek Ibrahim Abdel Rahman Habib, born in Beheira on 29 September 1994, and his brother Anas Ibrahim Abdel Rahman Mohamed Habib, born in Saudi Arabia on 7 July 1998, for “acquiring a foreign nationality without obtaining prior permission”, under Nationality Law No. 26 of 1975, on the interior minister’s proposal. The brothers are among the organisers<\/a> of the protests outside the Egyptian embassy in The Hague, part of a wave of protests outside Egyptian embassies that began in late July 2025 to demand the opening of the Rafah crossing, and they had announced on 31 October that they knew of the decision.<\/p>\n

The two decisions do not mention the protests, the foreign nationality the brothers acquired, when they acquired it, or whether they had applied for permission. By contrast, the government gave explicit political grounds in a decision two weeks earlier: in issue No. 44 of the Official Gazette, published on 29 October, Decision No. 83 of 2026 stripped<\/a> the citizenship of Bishoy Fayez Hanin Hanna “for his habitual residence outside the country and joining a foreign body whose aims include working to undermine the social and economic order of the state by force”, while the brothers’ decisions confined themselves to the procedural ground.<\/p>\n

The decisions come as Dutch prosecutors investigate an unnamed Egyptian, whose case details match those of Ahmed Nasser, known as “Dababa”, on suspicion of “providing services for a foreign power” by intimidating protesters, including those outside the embassy, as Zawia3 reported<\/a> on 30 October.<\/p>\n

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Haidar Kandil: 45 days after his co-defendants were released<\/h2>\n

The court decided<\/a>, at a session on Wednesday 11 November, to renew for 45 days the detention of journalist Mohamed Haidar Kandil, a journalist at Al-Dostour newspaper and a member of the Journalists Syndicate, and of the other detainees in case No. 5635 of 2026 (Supreme State Security), known as the Shia citizens case, in the first renewal hearing before the council chamber. The decision came after the Supreme State Security Prosecution released<\/a> 19 defendants in the same case on 1 November, Kandil not among them.<\/p>\n

Kandil was arrested on 22 June after leaving his office in Dokki, and only appeared<\/a> before the prosecution 22 days later, charged with “leading and financing a terrorist group”. According to the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, the campaign since 22 June has targeted at least 36 people, including ten non-Egyptians, and the Initiative’s lawyers noted, while attending the questioning of some detainees, questions about “their position on the Companions and the Prophet’s family”, as Zawia3 reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The prosecution has not announced how many remain detained in the case or their names, and nothing published explains why Kandil faces the leadership charge. Zawia3 found no statement from the Journalists Syndicate on the renewal of its member’s detention. With this decision, his detention will not be reviewed again before late December, more than six months after his arrest.<\/p>\n

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Ahmed Sabie: visits banned and reports of an assault his family cannot confirm<\/h2>\n

Iman Mahrous, wife of journalist Ahmed Sabie, said<\/a> in remarks published yesterday, Thursday 12 November, that the prison administration had banned visits to all prisoners over the past month, adding: “I know nothing about him, and I cannot confirm or deny the reports circulating about his being tortured in detention.” She said he suffers from heart, jaw and knee conditions, that he is “very ill and there is no response to transferring him to hospital”, and that she had filed a complaint with the National Council for Human Rights, while the Journalists Syndicate has asked in official letters for him to be given treatment.<\/p>\n

The Arab Observatory for Media Freedom had said<\/a> that Sabie was assaulted in Badr 3 prison on the evening of 4 November by security personnel led by a National Security officer. Sabie was arrested on 28 February 2020 at the funeral of thinker Mohamed Emara, in case No. 1360 of 2019 (Supreme State Security), and was referred to trial after 30 months in pretrial detention, meaning he has been held for more than six and a half years. Zawia3 found no official response to the visit ban or the assault allegation, and no announcement of an investigation.<\/p>\n

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Two more killed in an "exchange of fire"<\/h2>\n

The Interior Ministry announced<\/a> on the evening of yesterday, Thursday 12 November, the killing of “two criminal elements” in Sohag, who it said were wanted for killing a housewife grazing her sheep in Farshout, Qena governorate, on 9 November, saying “they were targeted with the participation of the Central Security sector”, that they “opened fire first”, and that security forces seized two automatic rifles and two kilograms of hashish with them. The statement did not give the two men’s names, any injuries among the forces, why they were not arrested, or whether the prosecution has opened an investigation into the circumstances of their deaths.<\/p>\n

This is at least the third such announcement since the start of the month. On 1 November, it was announced<\/a> that 9 people were killed in Ezbet Samara in the city of Al-Qurein in Sharqia, in an operation by anti-narcotics officers, and on 7 November the ministry announced<\/a> 9 more killed, and a policeman, in “a number of governorates”, without it being clear whether the second announcement includes those killed in the first. None of the three announcements published the names of those killed or the results of an investigation, and Zawia3 found no official cumulative toll of those killed in these operations.<\/p>\n

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Women content creators: successive arrests after "we are not your censors"<\/h2>\n

Between the evening of yesterday, Thursday 12 November, and the early hours of today, Friday, the Interior Ministry announced, among other cases, the arrest of<\/a> three women in Cairo, then of a young man<\/a> in Attarin, Alexandria, then of four women<\/a> in Giza, over videos it said contained “dancing in a manner offensive to modesty” or “words and innuendo offensive to modesty”. The same wording recurred in the statements: the General Administration for the Protection of Morals “monitored” the clips, and the accused women “confessed” to posting them “in order to increase views and make financial profits”.<\/p>\n

The statements gave no names of those arrested, no accounts or platforms, no definition of “offensive”, and not the charges they will face. Eleven days earlier, on 1 November, Minister of State for Information Diaa Rashwan said<\/a> during a meeting with content creators: “We are not your censors”, referring to the draft laws on freedom of information and digital safety.<\/p>\n

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Media council investigates a personal account at the Wafd party leader's request<\/h2>\n

The Supreme Council for Media Regulation referred<\/a> yesterday, Thursday 12 November, to its complaints committee chaired by Essam El-Amir, a complaint from Wafd party chairman Dr. El-Sayed El-Badawi Shehata against “the online account in the name of media adviser Amr El-Nomani” on Facebook “as well as a website”, under Law No. 180 of 2018. The statement did not say what was published, name the website, or give the account’s number of followers, although Article 19 of the law subjects personal accounts followed by 5,000 people or more to its provisions.<\/p>\n

Two days earlier, the council received<\/a> a complaint from Dina Mostafa Ali Morshedy, known as “Dan Adam”, against Mortada Mansour. Also yesterday, the minister of state for information presented<\/a> to the prime minister the results of “12 meetings” to prepare the first annual media conference, without what was published about the meeting mentioning Mada Masr’s closure<\/a> or the detention of the Matsadaqsh journalists, as Wednesday’s brief noted<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The IMF: the final review without a deal, and the programme ends in December<\/h2>\n

IMF spokesperson Julie Kozack said<\/a> yesterday, Thursday 12 November, that the Fund’s mission was in Egypt from 25 October to 5 November for the final review of the Extended Fund Facility and the third review of the Resilience and Sustainability Facility, and that discussions “will continue virtually, with the aim of reaching a staff-level agreement”, noting “significant progress”, and that details would be announced “as soon as an agreement is reached”. She gave no date for an agreement or for its presentation to the Executive Board, while the programme ends in mid-December.<\/p>\n

The IMF executive director representing the Arab group, Mohamed Maait, had expected<\/a> when the mission arrived that discussions would take “about two weeks” and that both reviews would pass. Among the files linked to the programme are fuel prices: on 17 October 2025, the Petroleum Ministry announced<\/a> a price freeze for at least a year “unless exceptional developments occur”, then the government raised them<\/a> by about EGP 3 a litre in March 2026, to their current level<\/a>: EGP 24 for 95-octane petrol, EGP 22.25 for 92-octane and EGP 20.5 for diesel.<\/p>\n

Zawia3 found no official government comment on the end of the mission’s visit without an agreement, or on the review conditions still outstanding.<\/p>\n

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Red Sea land: "swaps" for debt and a differing area figure<\/h2>\n

The Finance Ministry said<\/a> today, Friday 13 November, that Red Sea land allocated to reduce debt “will be directed to investment and partnerships”, through “offering usufruct rights” or partnership with the private sector, and “swapping part of the investments for outstanding debts”, and that debt fell “from 96% to 81.9%” of GDP over three years, with a primary surplus of 4.9% in fiscal year 2025\/2026.<\/p>\n

This follows Presidential Decree No. 448 of 2026, issued on 1 November and published in issue No. 44 bis (C) of the Official Gazette, which amended Decree No. 222 of 2026, originally allocated for issuing sovereign sukuk, to add public debt reduction to the purpose of the allocation, and provides for the land to be registered “without fees”. The decree set the area at about 26,690.45 feddans (112,122,000 square metres), according to<\/a> its published text, while elsewhere the figure of 2,669.45 feddans was published<\/a>, most likely a typing error. Decree No. 303 of 2025, published<\/a> in the Official Gazette on 4 June 2025, had allocated 41,515.55 feddans in the Red Sea to reduce public debt and issue sukuk.<\/p>\n

MP Mohamed Fouad, head of the Adl Party’s parliamentary bloc, today filed a briefing request<\/a> to the finance minister asking for the legal basis for swapping debts for state assets, about the link between the land and $1 billion of sukuk issued to Kuwait Finance House in June 2025, and about compliance with Sovereign Sukuk Law No. 138 of 2021, and said: “Reducing debt in one entity’s books does not necessarily mean reducing the state’s indebtedness, and swapping assets for liabilities is no substitute for addressing the structural imbalances of public finances.”<\/p>\n

The decree, defined by an attached table of coordinates, was not published with the name of the site, and the ministry’s statement did not give the land’s value, the debts it will be swapped for, or the creditors. As for the debt ratio, Finance Minister Ahmed Kouchouk said<\/a> on 23 October that budget-sector debt was “about 82.9% currently”, while the government spokesperson said<\/a> 81.9% is the June 2026 ratio, with no explanation for the difference.<\/p>\n

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The faculty raise starts in July 2027<\/h2>\n

Cabinet spokesperson Counsellor Mohamed Adel said<\/a> on the evening of Wednesday 11 November that the new raise in faculty salaries “will start from 1 July 2027”, more than seven months away, with the finance and higher education ministers to announce its value on Monday 16 November. What has already been approved, according to<\/a> a cabinet presentation, is “a teaching incentive of EGP 1,000 a month” ($18.7), and an increase in the quality incentive of between EGP 500 and 1,500 ($9.3 to $28) depending on grade. According to the same presentation, raises for teachers, under a plan to lift their pay to EGP 15,000 over two years, also start “gradually” from July 2027.<\/p>\n

The raise was announced, as Wednesday’s brief noted<\/a>, without a figure or a cost, two days after the austerity decree was published. Yesterday, Thursday, the same spokesperson said<\/a> the austerity measures target “savings estimated at about EGP 40 billion by the end of June 2027” ($748 million), meaning the raise starts the day after the end of the period set for the savings target, without the government linking the two.<\/p>\n

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The five bonuses: a final ruling since 2019, and a decision on enforcement postponed to March 2027<\/h2>\n

The Supreme Administrative Court reserved<\/a> yesterday, Thursday 12 November, appeals Nos. 47334 and 41368 of judicial year 71 for judgment on 25 March 2027. The appeals were filed by lawyer Abdel Ghaffar Meghawry on behalf of Ahmed El-Orabi, head of the General Federation of Pensioners’ Unions, against the National Social Insurance Authority and the finance minister, to enforce a ruling issued on 21 February 2019 counting 80% of the five special bonuses not merged into basic pay towards the variable wage, and to enforce two Supreme Constitutional Court rulings issued in 2017 for those whose service ended before 2002. The State Commissioners Authority had recommended “annulling the two decisions refusing to enforce the rulings”.<\/p>\n

The case was previously postponed in July 2026 at the insurance authority’s request to submit a memorandum, then on 1 September<\/a> for the parties to review documents the authority had submitted, before it was reserved for judgment yesterday. Zawia3 found no announcement from the authority or the Finance Ministry of the cost of enforcement or the number of those entitled. In the same file, the House Manpower Committee will discuss on Sunday 15 November, with the head of the insurance authority, Maj. Gen. Gamal Awad, attending, nine briefing requests<\/a> from Adl Party MPs on failures of the insurance system, after the authority promised on 17 June to make fixes by 1 August.<\/p>\n

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Hurghada airport: from "before the end of the year" to "being finalised"<\/h2>\n

The presidential spokesperson said<\/a> that Civil Aviation Minister Sameh El-Hefny pointed out, during President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s meeting with the prime minister and officials yesterday, Thursday 12 November, that “the procedures for offering Hurghada airport as a pilot project for private-sector participation in managing, operating and developing airports are currently being finalised”, and that “Egyptian airports are sovereign assets owned by the state and not offered for sale”, and that the aviation sector’s proceeds reached $4.8 billion in fiscal year 2025\/2026.<\/p>\n

On 15 June 2025, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said<\/a> the first Egyptian airports were planned to be announced for management and operation offerings before the end of that year, and on 15 February 2026, meeting a vice-president of the International Finance Corporation, he looked forward<\/a> to “completing all procedures” for offering Hurghada airport “as soon as possible”. Nine months later, the minister said they are “currently being finalised”. The statement did not give a date for the offering, the form or duration of the contract, or the expected return.<\/p>\n

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Financial regulator: a one-year freeze renewed for a third year<\/h2>\n

The Financial Regulatory Authority extended<\/a>, by its Decision No. 213 of 2026, the halt on receiving applications to establish or license consumer finance and microfinance companies through traditional channels, including NGOs working in microfinance, for another year until 11 October 2027. The halt began with the authority’s board Decision No. 184 of 2024 for one year, and a separate halt applies to licensing fintech companies in consumer finance until 25 February 2027, renewable.<\/p>\n

The authority justified the decision by “preserving financial stability”, based on its study of market needs, the volume of activity and the quality of services, and Zawia3 found no data published by the authority on defaults or household indebtedness in the sector to explain renewing twice a decision issued for a single year.<\/p>\n

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Electricity: a dollar price for data centres, and fines of up to EGP 2 million<\/h2>\n

Electricity Minister Mahmoud Esmat said<\/a> today, Friday 13 November, that artificial intelligence data centres will pay “7.50 US cents” per kilowatt-hour in Upper Egypt and “8 cents” in the north, and that the price will be officially announced “in the next few days”. The minister did not compare this price with the cost of generation, part of which depends on imported liquefied gas, or with factory and household tariffs, while gas supplies to a number of steel plants were cut<\/a> by about 30%, and to fertilizer plants by about 33%, since 8 November.<\/p>\n

The House of Representatives will discuss on Monday 16 November amendments<\/a> to Electricity Law No. 87 of 2015. According to<\/a> the text of the government bill, the fine for licensees violating licence terms ranges from EGP 1 million to 2 million ($18.7k to $37.4k), and the fine for violating the energy-efficiency label from EGP 500,000 to 1 million with confiscation, a minimum the joint committee lowered<\/a> to EGP 200,000 ($3.7k). The bill gives “a body designated by the cabinet” the power to set policies, without naming it.<\/p>\n

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Railways: stolen "fishplates" and an inspection of every line<\/h2>\n

The fourth car of train No. 107\/3634 on the Ismailia\u2013Suez line derailed<\/a> between Nefisha and El-Dabaiya stations yesterday, Thursday 12 November, without injuries, and the Egyptian National Railways said the cause was “the theft of 8 fishplates used to join and fix the rails”. Transport Minister Lt. Gen. Kamel al-Wazir ordered<\/a> “a complete halt to train movement” on the line until the technical review is completed, and ordered<\/a> an inspection of “all lines across the country”. The railway authority’s statement did not say when the line was last inspected, or how eight pieces were stolen without being detected.<\/p>\n

In the Ayyat file, the committee of Cairo University engineering professors took the oath<\/a> before the Public Prosecution, which widened its remit to include “examining the files of previous accidents\u2026 and investigating the reasons for the repeated derailment of some train cars”, and the detention<\/a> of the Raqqa station controller and stationmaster was renewed for 15 days. The comprehensive inspection order came two days after the minister told MPs “we admit there are mistakes”, as Wednesday’s brief noted<\/a>, and after other incidents the same week, including a car derailing<\/a> at Mazghouna on 8 November.<\/p>\n

Khaled Dawoud, a member of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party’s higher committee, said opposition demands to dismiss the minister run into<\/a> the majority, noting that “there is a majority controlling the final decision”. The two announced detainees in the case are still station workers, although the technical examination showed the driver of train 134 had disabled the automatic control system.<\/p>\n

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Old rent: a fourth deadline, 20 days after the previous one expired<\/h2>\n

The Official Gazette published<\/a> yesterday, Thursday 12 November, Cabinet Decision No. 89 of 2026 continuing the period for applying for alternative housing units under Old Rent Law No. 164 of 2025 until 12 January 2027. The decision was issued on 1 November, 20 days after the previous deadline, set by Decision No. 59 of 2026, expired on 12 October, without clarifying the status of applications during those days. It is the fourth announced extension decision, after Decisions 4, 24 and 59 of 2026.<\/p>\n

On 13 July, the deadline at the time was described<\/a> as “the final deadline\u2026 after it was extended 3 times”, when applications numbered 86,000. On 12 October, Housing Minister Randa El-Menshawy said<\/a> applicants numbered about 180,000, and that the end of the seven-year period does not mean citizens will be evicted from their homes or the units vacated automatically. The new decision did not give the number of units actually allocated or available, or what tenants will pay.<\/p>\n

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Hourly teachers: 1,410 Arabic-language openings after the shortage was declared closed<\/h2>\n

An announcement by the Education Ministry was published<\/a> yesterday, Thursday 12 November, via the government jobs portal, for 1,410 job openings for Arabic-language teachers, 1,251 in Cairo and 159 in Port Said, open to those already working on the hourly system in a government school in the same educational administration, aged 45 or under, between 10 and 24 January 2027.<\/p>\n

On 19 October, Education Minister Mohamed Abdel Latif said<\/a> the shortage had reached about 469,000 teachers, and that the ministry had closed the shortage in core-subject teachers by appointing 30,000 teachers a year, using hourly teachers and increasing teaching loads. On 24 December 2025, he said<\/a> in a television interview that “classroom overcrowding has ended forever, or at least for the next 7 years”. Also yesterday, a ministry letter warned<\/a> directorates against issuing explanatory circulars on decisions to collect fees, fines and subscriptions without referring to the body that issued the decision, “to preserve the revenues achieved to meet obligations”.<\/p>\n

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Refugees: security cooperation with the EU, and a warning of verification sweeps<\/h2>\n

Interior Minister Maj. Gen. Mahmoud Tawfik received<\/a> yesterday, Thursday 12 November, the EU Commissioner for Internal Affairs and Migration, Magnus Brunner, and a working arrangement was signed between the ministry and the EU agency for law enforcement training, and the commissioner praised the ministry’s efforts against terrorism and organised crime, “especially in combating irregular migration”. Meeting the commissioner, Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty reviewed<\/a> the burdens of Egypt hosting “millions of refugees”, saying they require international support for Egypt.<\/p>\n

On the same day, the Refugees Platform in Egypt warned<\/a> of a possible repeat of the security verification campaigns of past years, from the end of the year to the start of the next, which affected migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, including holders of valid documents or people awaiting their renewal. Human Rights Watch had documented<\/a> on 7 July a months-long campaign of arrests and deportations, most of whose victims were Sudanese and South Sudanese. Neither statement on the two meetings mentioned deportation, detention or the executive regulations of the asylum law.<\/p>\n

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Mecca: a condemnation without naming the attacker, and Egyptian forces protecting "sensitive sites"<\/h2>\n

The Foreign Ministry condemned<\/a> yesterday, Thursday 12 November, “in the strongest terms the continuing attacks\u2026 the latest of which was the launch of ballistic missiles and drones towards Mecca”, and affirmed “its support for all measures the kingdom takes to protect its security”, without the statement naming the party responsible. Saudi civil defence had announced<\/a> early on Thursday the interception of two ballistic missiles towards the Mecca region, and Saudi television located the debris sites about 35 and 21 kilometres from the Grand Mosque. Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree had denied targeting Mecca, in response to the coalition’s Wednesday announcement of intercepting drones heading towards it, saying the group targeted an oil pumping station in Yanbu and King Khalid Airport in Riyadh, and the group issued no specific response to Thursday’s announcement.<\/p>\n

The statement comes days after the foreign minister said, in an interview on 9 November, that Egyptian forces in the kingdom defend “sensitive sites, including holy sites”, as Wednesday’s brief noted<\/a>, and the statement did not say whether these forces took part in the interception or were exposed to danger. In the early hours of the same day, an interview with the minister by the Middle East News Agency was published<\/a> in which he said: “There are no military solutions to the crisis in Yemen.” On 8 November, the ministry condemned<\/a> the launch of two missiles towards Riyadh in similar wording, without naming the attacker.<\/p>\n

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Sudan: "respect for sovereignty", and a miner says they will not leave<\/h2>\n

In the same interview with the Middle East News Agency, the foreign minister stressed<\/a> “the importance of neighbouring countries respecting Sudan’s sovereignty and security”, and rejected, speaking about the Horn of Africa, “any single state imposing its will by force on the countries of the region”. Today, Friday 13 November, he discussed<\/a> with the US president’s senior adviser for Arab and African affairs, Massad Boulos, on the sidelines of the Sir Bani Yas Forum in the UAE, a settlement in Sudan “with Sudanese ownership\u2026 away from external interference”.<\/p>\n

On the border, Abdullah Abdel-Baqi, a traditional miner in the North Wadi area, said in a report<\/a> published today that they resumed work immediately after “the latest bombing incident carried out by Egyptian aircraft”, and that they will not leave. Zawia3 found no statement from the military spokesman on the results of the fourth phase of the “Southern Shield” campaign since it began on 7 November. The spokesman had stressed that operations “take place inside Egypt’s borders”, as the 10 November brief reported<\/a>, while the statement of the Egyptian-Sudanese “2+2” mechanism on 2 November rejected<\/a> “any attempts to exploit regional conditions to militarise the Red Sea”.<\/p>\n

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Gaza: condemning the strike on Nasser Medical Complex, and disarmament absent from the meeting with the EU representative<\/h2>\n

The Foreign Ministry condemned<\/a> yesterday, Thursday 12 November, “the Israeli bombing of Nasser Medical Complex” in Khan Younis, saying it undermines “efforts to consolidate the ceasefire”, without the statement giving the number of casualties, who reached 7 killed and more than 20 injured according to<\/a> medical sources. On the same day, 53 UN member states and other organisations called<\/a> for “full and predictable operation” of humanitarian corridors through Egypt and Jordan, and it was not clear whether Egypt was among the signatories.<\/p>\n

Today, Friday 13 November, the foreign minister discussed<\/a>, on the sidelines of the Sir Bani Yas Forum, with the EU Special Representative for the Middle East Peace Process, Christophe Bigot, the second phase of the comprehensive plan to end the conflict, from empowering the national committee to administer Gaza to “security arrangements and the withdrawal of Israeli forces” and the entry of aid and shelter supplies “without obstruction”, without referring to Hamas’s disarmament, which the minister described in an interview on 9 November as “the main problem”, as Wednesday’s brief noted<\/a>. The statement on the meeting included no figures on trucks crossing at Rafah.<\/p>\n

Photos: Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly, by Christophe Licoppe via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0<\/a>); IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, by Grant Ellis for the World Bank Group via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a>); EU Commissioner Magnus Brunner, by the Austrian Finance Ministry via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0<\/a>).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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