
After her visit to Israel on Sunday, France's foreign minister Catherine Colonna is in Cairo for talks with Egyptian president Abdel Fatah Al-Sissi in an attempt to find a diplomatic solution to the war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas that controls the Gaza Strip.
Colonna was to meet President al-Sissi Monday morning, followed by Egypt's foreign minister Sameh Choukri, with whom she will discuss the issue of the escalating war between Israel and Hamas.