Egypt continues to push back on CNN report about mediation

More details are coming out about Egypt’s growing anger over a CNN report that cited sources saying Cairo had inserted language into a May ceasefire proposal that caught the US and Israel off guard.

“Attempts to cast doubt and offend Egypt’s mediation efforts... will only lead to further complications of the situation in Gaza and the entire region and may push Egypt to completely withdraw from its mediation in the current conflict,” Diaa Rashwan, head of Egypt’s State Information Service, said in a statement on X. 

Rashwan added that Egypt was mediating ceasefire talks on the insistence of the US and Israel.

US officials have suggested Egypt is to blame for the failure of the Rafah border crossing to open, a claim Egypt denies.

Cairo is also upset over a CNN article that alleged an Egyptian intelligence official changed the terms of a ceasefire proposal that Israel agreed to in order to appease Hamas.