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All eyes were on Riyadh last night, as the nation’s talking heads shifted their attention from on-the-ground updates in Gaza to the Islamic-Arab League summit that took place in the Saudi capital yesterday. The summit concluded with a joint statement calling for the immediate end to the war and a rejection of Israel’s justification for the war as self defense. We have the full story in this morning’s War Watch, above.
Palestinians aren’t happy with the outcome of the summit: “The outcome represents the bare minimum of what is necessary — putting an end to the violence and the forced displacement of Gazans. The decisions are good, they represent a strong Arab-Islamic stance, but they are missing political will,” senior PLO official Ahmad Majdalani told Kelma Akhira’s Lamees El Hadidi (watch, runtime: 6:52). “The decisions will remain without action, just like all the previous Arab and Islamic decisions taken,” he added, explaining that Arab leaders need to go to the UN Security Council and push to end the war and forced displacement of Gazans. “The outcomes of the summit did not live up to the aspirations of the Palestinian people … the ongoing violence requires more Arab efforts,” head of the Palestinian Authority's Commission for Detainees' Affairs Qadura Fares told Al Qahera News (watch, runtime: 7:18). The summit received coverage from Masa’a DMC (watch, runtime: 4:55), El Hekaya (watch, runtime: 1:55), and Ala Maso’uleety (watch, runtime: 3:48).
El Sisi meets with Iranian and Turkish counterparts:On the sidelines of the Islamic-Arab summit, President Abdel Fattah El Sisi met with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi. “Egypt’s relationship with Turkey is developing. There are mutual steps to resume efforts of restoring relations,” presidential spokesperson Ahmed Fahmy told El Hekaya’s Amr Adib (watch, runtime: 2:10). The meeting with Raisi centered around the situation in Gaza, Fahmy said (watch, runtime: 1:36).
AND- It’s as if Masa’a DMC knew Enterprise would be tuning in: Masa’a DMC hosted (watch, runtime: 4:51) professor and economist Sherif Delawar who laid out the history of Egypt’s relationship with the USD and the root of our FX crisis.
