The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs will also travel to Lebanon for meetings with UN agencies and the Emergency Rescue Committee.
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00:00The EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, has arrived in Egypt for talks
00:07with Egyptian President El-Sisi on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
00:12Their discussions will cover the EU's role in alleviating the human suffering caused
00:16by Israel's war in Gaza, as well as ceasefire mediation efforts by Egypt, the U.S. and Qatar.
00:24Today, the most urgent thing is to make these ambulances to enter or to receive the wounded people.
00:32And that's why the European Union is ready to present their capacities, to offer their logistic capacities
00:37in order to reopen this border and to have the European staff deployed on the other side of this border
00:45in order for the border to be open.
00:48Borrell spoke from the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing with Gaza,
00:52where he is expected to inaugurate an EU-funded project to help Gazan children and their caregivers in Egypt.
00:59Borrell's visit is part of the EU's ongoing engagement mission aimed at preventing further regional escalation.
01:06He will also travel to Lebanon later this week to discuss the country's stability
01:10and its role in the wider Middle East conflict.