Egypt warns against regional escalation diverting attention from Gaza

On 2026-04-22, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty held separate phone calls with Palestinian Vice President Hussein al-Sheikh, Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa, and the U.S.-led Board of Peace's High Representative for Gaza Nickolay Mladenov. According to Egypt's Foreign Ministry, the conversations focused on developments in Gaza and the West Bank, and Abdelatty stressed that regional escalation should not divert attention from completing the second phase of the Gaza peace plan.