The leader of Israel’s Shin Bet spy organisation came in Egypt on Sunday, according to Al-Arabiya, to meet with a number of Egyptian security officials.
According to sources, Egypt’s intelligence chief postponed a trip to Tel Aviv due to a number of sensitive files, as Egypt expressed concern over Israel’s unjustifiable escalation in the Gaza conflict.
According to other reports, the Shin Bet directors’ trip to Egypt was in response to the strained ties between Cairo and Tel Aviv, as well as Israel’s inability to keep its promises to halt the escalation in Gaza.
It is worth remembering that in early August, Israel launched airstrikes and heavy artillery, mostly against sites of the Islamic Jihad movement in Gaza, which responded by firing hundreds of missiles.
Israeli forces focused their operations on Islamic Jihad, an Iranian-backed armed group, while avoiding direct battle with Hamas, the primary movement that has ruled the coastal Gaza Strip since 2007.
Hundreds of Palestinians were murdered during the three-day escalation, which ended on the seventh of this month with an Egyptian-brokered peace between Islamic Jihad and Tel Aviv.
The Shin Bet chief of Israel is in Cairo to discuss the condition of the Gaza truce.
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