EU chief to visit Egypt, Jordan on Saturday
AFP :
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will visit Egypt and Jordan, her spokesman said
Wednesday, amid fighting between Israel and Hamas that has raged for more than five weeks.
The EU chief will on Saturday meet with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi before travelling to Sinai, near the border with Israel, for the arrival of an EU humanitarian convoy, Eric Mamer said.
She will then meet King Abdullah II in Jordan, he wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
Von der Leyen visited Israel on October 13 — a week after Hamas militants launched the deadliest attack in Israel's history, killing 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking around 240 hostages, according to
In Gaza, more than 11,500 people, also mostly civilians, have been killed in the ensuing aerial
bombardment and ground offensive, health officials in the Hamas-run territory have said.
