Cairo — Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el‑Sisi has issued one of the most scathing denunciations yet of the Israeli regime’s continued war crimes in Gaza, declaring the Israeli campaign a “systematic genocide” aimed at starving, exterminating, and erasing the Palestinian people.
Standing alongside Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez during a press conference in Cairo, el‑Sisi departed from diplomatic ambiguity and forcefully accused Israel of conducting a war of “starvation and annihilation,” which, according to him, has exceeded the boundaries of war and become a mission to liquidate the Palestinian cause altogether.
This marks a turning point in Egypt’s tone, traditionally cautious in its engagement with the Gaza crisis due to longstanding military aid ties with the US and its Cold Peace with Tel Aviv. El‑Sisi flatly rejected Western-backed Israeli proposals to forcefully displace Palestinians from Gaza into Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, a scheme long suspected by regional observers as a quiet strategy to complete the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians under the guise of humanitarian evacuation.
“Egypt has not and will not allow the liquidation of the Palestinian cause at the expense of other parties,” el‑Sisi declared. “We are not and will never be a passage for the displacement of Palestinians.”
El‑Sisi’s remarks come at a time when the ongoing genocide in Gaza has pushed the strip toward total collapse. With more than 61,000 Palestinians already slaughtered since the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, and entire neighborhoods flattened under indiscriminate airstrikes, the Israeli occupation has entered what human rights groups call a deliberate phase of extermination.
Israel continues to choke humanitarian access. Despite over 5,000 aid trucks stacked along the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing, blocked by the very regime el‑Sisi accuses of genocide, Israel has made clear it intends to limit or manipulate aid as a tool of submission. Food insecurity has reached famine conditions in northern Gaza, where children have died from starvation.
Egypt’s position echoes the widening call across the Global South, from South Africa’s genocide case at the International Court of Justice to Russia and China’s consistent vetoes against Israeli impunity. Cairo’s open rejection of Palestinian expulsion dovetails with the position of countries like Iran, Algeria, and Brazil, which have framed the war not as a “conflict” but as a campaign of annihilation.
The hypocrisy of Western leaders, particularly the US and UK, remains glaring. As Israel bombs refugee camps and schools with impunity, the Biden administration continues to dispatch weapons and veto ceasefire resolutions. US complicity in the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza is now an open secret, a moral collapse long masked behind the excuse of Israeli “self-defense.”
According to Mehr News, el‑Sisi’s comments reflect Egypt’s refusal to be complicit in “a war of starvation, genocide, and elimination of the Palestinian cause.” He confirmed that the country will instead continue serving as a corridor for humanitarian aid while rejecting forced displacement as a tool of ethnic cleansing.
