El-Sisi spoke after a meeting with the Spanish and Belgian prime ministers, who are trying to shore up support for a peace conference.

A future Palestinian state could be demilitarized and have a temporary international security presence, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said.

“We have said that we are ready for the demilitarization of this state and there can also be guarantees for armed forces, be they NATO forces, United Nations forces or Arab or American forces, until we provide security for both states, the emerging Palestinian one State and the emerging Palestinian state have reached the Israeli state,” el-Sisi said on Friday during a joint press conference in Cairo with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo.

A political resolution calling for a Palestinian state based on the June 4, 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital has remained elusive, el-Sisi added.

Arab nations have rejected suggestions that an Arab force could provide security in the Gaza Strip after the end of the current Israeli military operation there against the Palestinian group Hamas, which has ruled Gaza since 2007.

Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi told reporters in London this week that Arab states do not want to move into a Gaza Strip that could be turned into a “wasteland” by the Israeli military offensive.

“Under what circumstances would any of us want to go and be seen as an enemy and someone who has come to clean up Israel’s mess?” he said.

Increase support for an international peace conference

The Spanish prime minister, whose new government was sworn in earlier this month, is visiting the region along with his Belgian counterpart. Your two countries each hold the current and upcoming rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union.

Sanchez tried support He gave impetus to an international peace conference with the aim of ensuring the establishment of a “viable” Palestinian state, he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday.

Last week, Sanchez said a Union for the Mediterranean summit in Barcelona on November 27-28 would be an “ideal place” to restart the Israeli-Palestinian dialogue because both sides would “sit on equal footing.” would.

Both Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA), which governs limited parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, are members of the Mediterranean group, along with neighbors Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt and Syria.

Later on Friday, Sanchez and de Croo visited the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza, which is currently the only one offering access to the besieged enclave.

De Croo called on Israel to open more border crossings with the Gaza Strip “because innocent civilians are suffering and need help.”

Sanchez said during the visit to Rafah that the current four-day ceasefire in Gaza was not enough and a permanent ceasefire was needed.

Fighting between Israeli troops and Hamas militants paused on Friday for the first time in seven weeks ahead of the planned release of Hamas civilian hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners.

The fighting broke out on October 7 when Hamas carried out an attack on southern Israel that killed about 1,200 people, according to Israeli officials.

According to Palestinian authorities, Israel responded with a devastating attack on Gaza that killed more than 15,000 people, including more than 6,000 children.