The statement from Sissi’s office said he and Trump extended mutual invitations for state visits during the call, and stressed the importance of continued “coordination and cooperation.”

Sissi also noted that “the international community is counting on President Trump’s ability to reach a permanent and historic peace agreement that ends the conflict that has existed in the region for decades,” the statement said.

Trump last month suggested a plan to “clean out” the Gaza Strip, saying last Saturday he would “like Egypt to take people,” as well as Jordan. Both Egypt and Jordan have rejected the idea.

At the time, he said he would speak to Sissi the following day, but Egypt later denied the call had taken place.

On Wednesday, Sissi called the proposal “an injustice that we cannot take part in,” but said he was “determined to work with President Trump, who seeks to achieve the desired peace based on the two-state solution.”

Trump, however, insisted again on Thursday that
Egypt is a key US ally in the region, and was the only country besides Israel to receive an exemption from Trump’s foreign aid freeze last month. Though according to Reuters, the freeze had already been blocked temporarily by a federal judge in Washington

Since the Hamas terror group attacked Israel on October 7, 2023 — killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages, triggering war in the Gaza Strip — Egypt has played a delicate balancing act,
1. maintaining its mediator role in the conflict
2. while positioning itself as a champion of the Palestinian cause.

Sissi said on Wednesday of the proposed plan:
“If I were to ask this of the Egyptian people, all of them would take to the streets to say no,”