EGYPTIAN President Mohamed Morsi has branded an Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip a "blatant aggression against humanity", as world leaders called for restraint and urged Egypt to use its influence with Hamas to secure a ceasefire.
"Egypt will not leave Gaza on its own.... What is happening is a blatant aggression against humanity," Morsi said, as his prime minister, Hisham Qandil, visited Gaza vowing to boost efforts to secure a truce to end the bloodletting.
"I tell them in the name of all the Egyptian people that the Egypt of today is not the Egypt of yesterday and that the Arabs of today are different than the Arabs of yesterday," he said after weekly Muslim prayers at a Cairo mosque.
"Cairo will not leave Gaza on its own."
Morsi hails from the Muslim Brotherhood movement that gave birth to Hamas, the Islamist group that governs Gaza.
US deputy State Department spokesman Mark Toner said on Thursday he hoped the Egyptian prime minister would deliver a message to halt the rocket fire into Israel.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday added her voice to the call.
"The federal chancellor calls on the Egyptian government to use its influence on Hamas to push it towards a moderation of the violence," Merkel's deputy spokesman, Georg Streiter, said in Berlin.
President Vladimir Putin told Morsi in a telephone call that Russia supports Egypt's efforts to halt the escalating violence in Gaza, the Kremlin said.
In Brussels, European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said on Friday that Israel had the right to protect its people against Gaza rocket attacks but urged it to stick to a "proportionate" response.
Meanwhile, Tunisian Foreign Minister Rafik Abdessalem will visit Gaza on Saturday, the presidency said, in a statement denouncing Israeli "aggression" on the Palestinian enclave.
The bloodshed began on Wednesday afternoon when Israel killed top Hamas military chief Ahmed Jaabari in an air strike on a car in Gaza City.
AFP
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