Egyptian spokesperson denies plan for Palestinian state in Sinai February 23, 2017Southern Sinai. (Shutterstock)(Shutterstock)Egyptian spokesperson denies plan for Palestinian state in SinaiThe spokesperson for Egypt’s president rejected assertions made by an Israeli minister over a week ago suggesting that there was an Egyptian plan to create a Palestinian state in the Sinai peninsula.The spokesman for Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Alaa Youssef, said on Thursday that no plan exists in the government to propose the creation of a Palestinian state in the Sinai peninsula.“It’s unimaginable to get into such unrealistic and unacceptable proposals especially in Sinai, which is a dear part of the nation,” he said.Israeli-Druze Minister Ayoob Kara had claimed ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with President Donald Trump last week, that both leaders would adopt such a plan that had been reportedly suggested by Sisi in 2014.“Trump and Netanyahu will adopt the plan of Egypt’s Sisi: A Palestinian state in Gaza and Sinai. instead of Judea and Samaria,” Kara had written on Twitter.Israel took control over the Sinai peninsula during the Six-Day War of 1967. Twelve years later, Israel agreed to incrementally withdraw from the territory in a peace agreement with Egypt.By: World Israel News Staff EgyptKaraSinai
