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The nation’s talking heads toned things down a little to ease us into the weekend.Coverage was still dominated by the war on Gaza, but next month’s presidential election and the economy made brief appearances.
Campaign 2023: Yahduth Fi Masr’s Sherif Amer brought together a panel of Egyptian journalists to discuss the presidential candidates’ campaigns. “Ever since the war on Gaza broke out, the coverage of the presidential elections decreased to a scary extent,” Al Shorouk Editor in Chief Emad El Din Hussein told Amer (watch, runtime: 3:04). Fellow journalist Mohamed Fathy highlighted the need for presidential candidates to up their social media presence (watch, runtime: 3:11).
Want to catch a campaign up close and in person? Masa’a DMC (watch, runtime: 0:43) laid out the weekend campaign schedules for a number of the presidential candidates.
Palestinian officials on the airwaves: “The current priority at the moment is to completely put a stop to the violence in Gaza … We have lost almost 12k Gazans,” Palestinian presidential advisor Mahmoud Al Habbash told Yahduth Fi Masr (watch, runtime: 5:05). “We are losing people with every passing second … We are in a race with time to put an end to this violence, all other issues can be revisited at a later time,” he added.
Israeli hospital raid sparks outrage: Our nation's talking heads also turned their attention to the Israeli raid on one of Gaza’s largest hospitals that has been dominating headlines in the region and across the globe. The hospital has no supplies of electricity, water, or food, and dwindling medical supplies, Palestinian Health Minister Mai Al Kaila told Masa’a DMC (watch, runtime: 7:17). “The situation at Al Shifa Hospital is disastrous … there are still corpses at the hospital, whose bodies are decomposing,” she added. We have more on the story in this morning’s War Watch, above.
Big spenders: The Central Bank of Egypt yesterday announced that it is doubling the limit on withdrawals, purchases, and transactions using prepaid cards and online banking for individuals to EGP 60k a day and EGP 200k a month. The move comes following a wave of inflation that pushed up prices, which in turn increased spending, economic analyst Ahmed Shawky told Salet El Tahrir (watch, runtime: 10:18). “It is also a message of reassurance that there is liquidity in the banking sector,” he said.
