The nation’s talking heads stayed fixated on subsidized bread price hikes, with Kelma Akhira’s Lamees El Hadidi virtually hosting Abdullah Ghorab, chief of the bakeries division of the General Federation of Chambers of Commerce (watch, runtime: 5:34) to hear his take.

Bakers want a bigger payout for producing subsidized bread: In line with the recent rise in the price of subsidized bread and the higher cost of energy and employee wages, the bakeries division submitted a proposal for the government to up the compensation paid out to bakeries producing subsidized bread.

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Less than fruitful three-way meeting on reopening the Rafah crossing: Egypt maintained its stance demanding Israeli forces give up control of the Palestinian side of the crossing before it agrees to reopen it, a high-level source told Al Qahera News following a three-way meeting between Egyptian, US, and Israeli officials in Cairo yesterday. “The Egyptian delegation reaffirmed Israel’s full responsibility for preventing relief and humanitarian aid from flowing into Gaza,” the source added. Egypt is pushing the UN and its affiliated organizations to take control of the Palestinian side of the crossing and oversee the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza, political researcher Mahmoud Mohieldin told El Hadidi (watch, runtime: 5:16).

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