May 21, 2021
CAIRO At the May 11 inauguration ceremony of a number of development projects at the Suez Canal Authority headquarters in Ismailia, attended by a number of top government officials, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced his approval of a project to expand the Suez Canal.
Canal authority chairman Lt. Gen. Osama Rabie, who presented the project to Sisi, said at the ceremony that the project aims to widen and deepen the southernmost 30-kilometer (18-mile) stretch of the waterway by 40 meters (130 feet) eastward. It also seeks to deepen the waterway from 66 feet to 72 feet and extend the second canal lane opened in 2015 by 10 kilometers (6 miles) southward, Rabie said.
The cease-fire between Israel and Hamas began early Friday morning at 2 a.m. local time, returning an uneasy calm to Gaza and Israel. U.S. President Joe Biden said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu informed him Thursday that Israel "has agreed to a mutual, unconditional cease-fire" with the Hamas militant group. Hamas has fired rockets at…
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GAZA/JERUSALEM Israel and Hamas both claimed victory on Friday after their forces ended 11 days of fighting, but humanitarian officials warned that the damage to Gaza would take years to rebuild.
As Palestinians and Israelis began to assess the scale of the damage, one Gazan said his neighborhood looked as if it had been hit by a tsunami. “How can the world call itself civilized?” Abu Ali asked, standing next to the rubble of a 14-story tower block.
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