Egypt Won’t Condemn Hamas, but It Continues to Help Israel

In a joint press conference yesterday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his British counterpart David Cameron commented on the possibility of an Israeli offensive into the city of Rafah, which lies on the Gaza-Egypt border. Cameron notably seemed to say that, in the event that hostage negotiations fail, an attack on Rafah is inevitable. Both an IDF incursion on Hamas’s last stronghold, and the hostage negotiations themselves, rely heavily on the cooperation of Egypt, which both serves as an important intermediary and controls one of the roads leading in and out of Rafah.