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Israel PM in first official trip to Egypt in over a decade

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By NOHA ELHENNAWY
Associated Press

CAIRO (AP) — The leaders of Egypt and Israel have met as part of the first official visit by an Israeli prime minister to Egypt in more than a decade. Rising tensions between Israel and Hamas-ruled Gaza were at the top of the agenda.  Gaza is sandwiched between Israel and Egypt, and both countries have enforced a border blockade of the territory to varying degrees since 2007 when the Islamic militant Hamas took control there. The meeting between Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi and Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett signaled a significant thaw in a relationship that had been frosty under Bennett’s predecessor, Israeli hard-liner Benjamin Netanyahu.

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