The American newspaper “The New York Times” said on Saturday that the American ambassador to Israel, Mike Hackabi, may visit Egypt in the coming days, to hold talks with Egyptian officials focusing on the war in the Gaza Strip and tension between Israel and Egypt, which is due to the greatest due to the war.
The newspaper quoted three officials from the United States and the Middle East as saying that it was the first time in years that an American ambassador to Israel has been in talks with Egyptian officials, while he is at the head of the American diplomatic mission in Israel.
The officials added that Hakapi is expected to meet with prominent officials, including Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdel -Ati.
Two New York Times officials informed that Hackabi’s talks in Egypt will include US President Donald Trump’s plan to end the Gaza war that he discussed with Arab and Muslim officials in New York last week.
It is not yet clear the role that the current US ambassador to Egypt, Hiro Mustafa Gargj, who was appointed during the era of the administration of former President Joe Biden in the talks. The Egyptian Foreign Ministry did not respond to a request from the New York Times for comment.
Egypt criticized the Israeli land attack on Gaza City, which was housing nearly one million Palestinians until recently, amid fears that the fighting would force hundreds of thousands of Gaza population to cross the Egyptian border into the Sinai Peninsula.
Israeli media reported that Israeli officials expressed Washington their concerns about Egypt’s mobilization of military forces in the Sinai Peninsula, which is located on the border between Israel and Gaza.
And the Egyptian government publicly announced last week, in a statement, in response to media reports on the mobilization of the forces, that its forces are present in the Sinai to defend the borders of Egypt against all threats.
Egypt also denied Israel’s claim that the presence of the forces there is a violation of the peace treaty it signed with Israel in 1979.
Trump Hakapi, an explicit supporter of the State of Israel, appointed an ambassador to the Hebrew state shortly after his re -election as President of the United States.
