The envoy described the meetings with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and other high officials as productive, he wrote on his official X account.

The priority is to prevent further losses of civilian lives and provide humanitarian access to the Gaza Strip, he stressed.

As part of the UN support, the agency for Palestinian refugees remains on the ground with 13,000 national and foreign members, most of whom are refugees in Gaza and nearly 4,000 in the West Bank.

Meanwhile, the agency’s peacekeeping mission on the Israel-Lebanon border operates with 9,400 ground troops, 900 civilians and 850 naval personnel in its Maritime Task Force.

The escalation of violence continues after the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) launched a surprise offensive on Israeli territory last Saturday in response to 75 years of aggression, according to the Palestinian group.

In a statement, the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign and Expatriate Affairs assured that the crisis unleashed by the clashes between Hamas and Israel “is the consequence of 75 years of suffering and displacement of the Palestinian people under the silent gaze of the international community.”

Israeli authorities, in turn, announced a radical siege in the Gaza Strip.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assured during a meeting of the Security Cabinet that “this is not an operation, not a round of clashes. This is war.”

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