Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi on Friday said that a future Palestinian state could be demilitarized ad have a temporary international security presence to provide guarantees to both it and to Israel.
“We said that we are ready for this state to be demilitarized, and there can also be guarantees of forces, or Arab or American forces, until we achieve security for both states,” President Sisi stated this during a joint news conference in Cairo with Spanish Prime Minister Predro Sanchez and Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo.
He further stated that a political resolution which requires a Palestinian state based on the June 4, 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, has remained out of reach.
Arab nations have rejected suggestions that an Arab force provide security in the Gaza Strip after the end of Israel’s current militant group Hamas, which has controlled Gaza since 2007.
Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi speaking in London this week, told reporters that Arab states would not want to go into Gaza Strip that could be turned into a “wasteland” by Israel’s military offensive.
“What are the circumstances under which any of us would want to go and be seen as the enemy and be seen as having come to clean up Israel’s mess?” he said