2023-11-19 18:30:29
Published on Nov. 19, 2023 at 3:20 p.m. Updated on Nov. 19, 2023 at 7:30 p.m.
Official speaking engagements this time were very limited. Ursula von der Leyen only spoke publicly once during her tour on Saturday and Sunday in Egypt and then in Jordan, sticking to the relatively more consensual theme of humanitarian aid. This is his second trip to the region since the Hamas attacks of October 7, following a controversial first visit to Israel in mid-October.
“We all agree that the volume of aid reaching Gaza must increase,” the President of the European Commission told the Egyptian press on Saturday at the Rafah border post in the Sinai Peninsula, the only non-crossing point. controlled by Israel with the Palestinian enclave.
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