News - Middle East: President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt warns US Secretary of State Antony Blinken that a catastrophic war could break out in the region unless Israel ends its atrocities against the Palestinians in Gaza.

After talks on Tuesday with the US diplomat in the Egyptian coastal town of Al Alamein, el-Sisi said all parties must be wary of “the grave danger of the conflict expanding regionally, with potentially catastrophic consequences.”

“The time has come to end the ongoing war [in Gaza], and to resort to wisdom, and to uphold the language of peace and diplomacy.”

Sis said that a ceasefire in Gaza must be the beginning of broader international recognition of an independent Palestinian State.

Egypt, along with Qatar, is brokering negotiations for a truce in the 10-month-old Israel’s genocidal war against the Palestinian people in Gaza.

Blinken flew to Egypt from Tel Aviv on Monday, where he said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had accepted a US "bridging proposal" aimed at narrowing the gaps between Israel and Hamas after peace talks last week in Qatar paused without a breakthrough.

He urged Palestinian resistance movement Hamas to also accept the proposal as the basis for more