Cairo, Oct. 19 -- Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim held a telephonic conversation on Saturday to discuss Gaza's reconstruction, as well as developments of the Palestinian issue amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas ceasefire.
According to the statement from the Egyptian presidency, Sisi reviewed the outcomes of the recent Sharm el-Sheikh summit and Egypt's ongoing coordination with mediators to implement the first phase of the ceasefire plan to end the war in Gaza.
The Egyptian president emphasized the alignment of views between Egypt and Malaysia on the need to build on recent developments to launch "a serious political track that leads to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state," i...