Aug 5, 2025
The Egyptian leader highlighted that more than 5,000 aid trucks are on Egyptian territory, ready to enter Gaza.
Palestinians in Gaza are facing a “systematic genocide” as Israel aims to starve the population and eliminate their cause, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al‑Sisi said on Tuesday.
“The war on Gaza is no longer a war to achieve political objectives or secure the release of hostages. It has become a war of starvation, genocide, and the elimination of the Palestinian cause,” Sisi told a press conference in Cairo with his Vietnamese counterpart, Luong Quang, the Anadolu news agency reported.
He stressed that the Palestinians in Gaza are facing a “systematic genocide,” adding that Egypt “will not be a gateway for the displacement of the Palestinian people.”
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— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) August 5, 2025
The Egyptian leader highlighted that more than 5,000 aid trucks are on Egyptian territory, ready to enter Gaza.
“History will hold many countries accountable for their stance on the war in Gaza, and the global human conscience will not remain silent for long.”
Sisi’s comments come amid a tight Israeli blockade that has left Gaza’s 2.4 million population on the verge of famine.
Protests at Egyptian Embassies
In recent days, activists targeted Egyptian embassies in various countries, urging the government to open the Rafah border with Gaza.
In the Netherlands last month, a 27-year-old Egyptian, Anas Habib, locked the gate of the Egyptian embassy with a metal chain in a symbolic act of protest.
“It’s heartbreaking to be besieged, with no way in and no way out.”
Egyptian activist Anas Habib locked the gates of Egypt’s embassy in The Hague to protest the closure of the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza. pic.twitter.com/2V172N2KYC
— AJ+ (@ajplus) August 1, 2025
“It was a cry of conscience,” Habib reportedly said during a live stream. “If Rafah is shut to medicine and children, then these diplomatic buildings that stay silent should be shut too.”
Since then, other embassies were targeted elsewhere, including in Norway, London and Pretoria.
In June, Egyptian authorities detained and deported dozens of activists who arrived in the country to participate in the Global March to Gaza, intended to break Israel’s blockade on the besieged enclave. Hundreds of activists were prevented from marching to the border with Gaza, some were beaten.
Deaths from Starvation
According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, at least 188 people, including 94 children, have died from starvation and malnutrition since October 2023.
Gaza’s Government Media Office said Monday that Israel had allowed in just 674 aid trucks since July 27 – only 14% of the strip’s minimum daily requirement of 600 trucks.
“I’ve been looking for food since six in the morning and found nothing…I swear we haven’t eaten since yesterday,”
A young boy breaks down in tears, exhausted from wandering the streets since dawn in a desperate search for food to feed his siblings. pic.twitter.com/HBNanq0d0Y
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) August 5, 2025
The Health Ministry said that at least 1,568 aid seekers have been killed and 11,230 others injured by Israeli fire near US-run aid distribution centers in Gaza since May 27.
The Israeli-crafted aid scheme has been widely criticized as being ineffective as well as being a “death trap” for starving civilians.
Over 60,000 Killed
Since Israel’s reneging on the ceasefire on March 18, it has killed and wounded thousands of Palestinians throughout the Gaza Strip through a bloody and ongoing aerial bombardment.
On October 7, 2023, following a Palestinian Resistance operation in southern Israel, the Israeli military launched a genocidal war against the Palestinians, killing over 60,000, wounding more than 147,000, with over 14,000 still missing.
Despite habitual condemnation by many countries around the world of the Israeli genocide, little has been done to hold Israel accountable.
Israel is currently under investigation for the crime of genocide by the International Court of Justice, while accused war criminals — including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — are now officially wanted by the International Criminal Court.
The Israeli genocide has been largely defended, supported, and financed by Washington and a few other Western powers.
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