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Assalam alaikum. Your Excellency Minister Shoukry and dear friends, thank you for your warm welcome and for your vital work. Through you, allow me to recognize and salute President el-Sisi for his critical leadership. I am in the Middle East on a humanitarian mission at a moment of profound crisis – a crisis unlike any the region has seen in decades. That crisis was triggered by the atrocious 7 October Hamas attacks that killed, injured and kidnapped a large number of civilians – from Israel and, indeed, around the world. This led Israel to a total siege on…
