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Home / Middle East / Egypt caught between Israel and Hamas as crisis deepens
Middle East, Israel‑Hamas

October 18, 2023

Egypt caught between Israel and Hamas as crisis deepens

“Sissi always has national and regime security at the front of his mind,” Daniel DePetris of the national security think tank Defense Priorities told Yahoo News. “It’s the first thing he thinks about when he gets up and the last thing he thinks about when he goes to bed.”

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