The Egyptian Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Feb. 9 announcing that Cairo will host an emergency Arab summit on Feb. 27 to address the recent “dangerous developments” concerning the Palestinian crisis and the Gaza Strip, reported the State Information Service.
“To host the summit, Egypt coordinated with the Kingdom of Bahrain, the current president of the Arab Summit, and the General Secretariat of the League of Arab States. Egypt has also been in extensive consultation with Arab nations, including the State of Palestine, which requested the summit…. Over the past few days, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty made a series of phone calls with several Arab counterparts to mass regional efforts in a bid to thwart the U.S. proposal of displacing the Palestinian people,” SIS reported.
