Military official tells MEE Egyptian army is on ‘the highest state of alert we’ve seen in years’ as Israel prepares to occupy Gaza

Minister of Foreign Affairs Badr Abdelatty stressed in a phone call with US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff on Wednesday, capitalising on Hamas' acceptance of the Gaza ceasefire proposal to bring an end to Israel's brutal and unjust two-year war on Gaza.

The Israeli military says it plans to call up tens of thousands of reservists for an expanded operation in Gaza City.

Fearing an Israeli onslaught could come soon, some Palestinian families began leaving eastern areas of Gaza City, now under constant Israeli bombardment, for points to the west, and some explored ev The Egyptian Foreign Minister said that any mass displacement of Palestinians from Gaza was a "red line" in a Monday interview with CNN.

At the Rafah crossing into the Gaza Strip, hundreds of aid trucks sat unmoving in the Egyptian desert, stuck for days with only a handful allowed through by Israel to relieve the humanitarian disaster across the border.

Egypt said it's willing to join an international security force deployed to Gaza, but under certain conditions

Israel unveils new humanitarian corridors in Gaza as over 1,700 aid packages are airdropped without Israeli inspection, prompting scrutiny ahead of the planned Gaza city invasion. The Defense Ministry,