CAIRO – 25 September 2025: Egypt revealed that it is counting on US President Donald Trump to end the war in Gaza, ensure sufficient humanitarian aid reaches the population, and launch reconstruction while guaranteeing that Palestinians remain on their land.
Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty made these statements during a meeting on Wednesday with US Special Envoy for the Middle East Steve Witkoff, held on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).
Their talks focused on developments in Gaza following Tuesday’s US-Arab-Islamic summit.
At the summit, Trump met Egypt's Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly, representing President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, alongside UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, and leaders from Turkey, Jordan, Qatar, Pakistan, and Indonesia to discuss the war.
“We want to end the war in Gaza. We’re going to end it. Maybe we can end it right now,” Trump told reporters at the start of the meeting.
'Trump 21-Point Plan'
Witkoff, who attended, outlined what he called “the Trump 21-point plan for peace in the Middle East, in Gaza,” saying he expected “some sort of breakthrough … in the coming days.”
Speaking at the Concordia Summit in New York on Wednesday, he described Trump’s meeting with Arab and Muslim leaders as “very productive,” noting that their plan addresses both Israeli concerns and those of “all the neighbors in the region.”
President Sisi later praised “the proposals” that Trump presented during the summit as “an important foundation upon which we can build further in the coming period to achieve peace.”
“I appreciate the efforts of the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, to stop the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip in particular, and his pursuit of peace in the Middle East at large,” Sisi said in a social media post.
Thu, Sep. 25, 2025
