The US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was in Egypt on Sunday, and the Egyptian president informed him that Israel’s bombardment of the region was out of scale. Egypt stated it had increased diplomatic efforts to get humanitarian goods into Gaza.

“The reaction went beyond the right to self-defense, turning into collective punishment for 2.3 million people in Gaza,” President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said of Israel’s retaliatory strikes following attacks by Hamas militants a week earlier.

Due to the failure to strike a solution allowing for its safe delivery to Gaza coupled with the evacuation of certain foreign passport holders through the Rafah border into Egypt, aid from numerous nations has been building up in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula.

Due to the failure to strike a solution allowing for its safe delivery to Gaza coupled with the evacuation of certain foreign passport holders through the Rafah border into Egypt, aid from numerous nations has been building up in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula.

Operation there has been hampered by Israeli bombardments on the Gaza side of the major non-Israeli exit point from Gaza, the Rafah border into Egypt.

Egypt is concerned about the possibility that Israel’s embargo and shelling of Gaza could force Palestinians to leave their homes.

It has stated that Palestinians should remain on their territories, as have other Arab states, and that it is striving to ensure the delivery of aid.