Egypt has asked the United States to push Israel to stop its offensive against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, warning that the violence could “escalate out of control,” the Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr spoke with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton late the night before, asking for “immediate U.S. intervention to stop the Israeli aggression,” the ministry said in a statement. The call came after Egypt recalled its Ambassador to Israel to protest the offensive.
Israel barraged the Gaza Strip with airstrikes and shelling Wednesday and killed the Hamas military chief in a targeted strike, launching a campaign aimed at stopping rocket attacks from Islamic militants. The assault killed 10 other Palestinians, including two children and seven militants.
Mr Amr told Ms Clinton that if Israel’s offensive does not stop, “matters will escalate out of control” and asked the US “to use what contacts it has with Israel.”
US President Barack Obama on Wednesday spoke with Egypt’s President, Mohammed Morsi, as well as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, expressing his support for Israel’s right to self-defence and saying Hamas rocket fire must end.
Keywords: Gaza Strip, Hamas militants, Israeli air strike, US-Israel relations
Israel must stop its Offensive against Gaza people.Every time Israel
says its attacking Gaza people as defensive against rockets fired from
gaza.Israel must end its offense else they've to search their another
land to live.Ruthless US Govt is watching its brain child(Israel)
killing the Innocent Gaza people
Where was Egypt when Hamas was firing and is firing rockets at ISRAEL??
SLEEPING?
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