The Peace Summit organized on Saturday in Egypt to call for a ceasefire in the war in Gaza has given nothing!
Egypt hoped, through the Peace Summit which it organized on Saturday October 21 in Cairo, forge an “international consensus” to call for a ceasefire in the war in Gaza and the respect of international law.
But this summit, to which heads of state, ministers and diplomats, mainly European and Arabic, ended without a joint final press release. The meeting highlighted the differences between Arab and European countries on the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
The conference thus ended in a failure due to the notable absence of several representatives of primary importance, as well as the very clear differences of view between the participants on the legitimacy of adversaries to defend themselves.
Among the notable presences, the emir of Qatar Tamim Ben Hamad Al-Thani, the president of the United Arab Emirates Mohammad Ben Zayed, the king of Jordan Abdallah II, the emir of Bahrain Hamad Ben Issa Al-Khalifa, the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, the head of European diplomacy Josep Borrell or Still the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
Apart from the president of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas, neither of the two parties involved directly in the war between Hamas and Israel presented himself at the conference, thus undergoing the hopes of the participants to find an agreement. The total absence of representation of the United States or Iran at the top was also noted.
The Egyptian president proposed a roadmap of ensuring humanitarian aid in a lasting way to the Gaza Strip, and carrying the need for a cease-fire between the two camps and a lifting of the blockade imposed on the Palestinian enclave.
He also mentioned the resumption of political discussions to lead to a solution to two states in the borders of 1967 with Al-Quds-Est as the capital of Palestine while reaffirming the refusal of Egypt to transfer the Palestinians refugees in the south of the Gaza Strip to the Sinai peninsula.
But the majority of European representatives insisted on the right of Israel to protect themselves after the Hamas offensive on October 7 and called for a unanimous qualification of the Islamist group as a terrorist organization.
Recall that Tunisia has chosen not to participate in this summit.
