Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi held a joint press conference today (Wednesday) with French President Emmanuel Macron. "We are working to contain the crisis in Gaza. Displacement, migration from, or leaving the Gaza Strip for Egyptian territory would be an extremely dangerous thing. The lack of a political horizon for solving the Palestinian crisis has led to the worsening of the situation," el-Sisi said. "We seek to prevent [an Israeli] ground entry into the Gaza Strip and warn of its consequences. The goal of the Israeli war, the elimination of Hamas, will require many years. We are working to free more hostages from Hamas captivity and to calm the situation as much as possible," he continued. Related articles: 35 rockets fired at northern Israel 44% of students did not finish studies over last year Nukhba terrorist who attacked Kibbutz Nir Oz on 10/7 eliminated IDF soldier killed in grenade explosion Meanwhile, Israel's Foreign Ministry condemned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan over his claim that "Hamas is not a terror organization." "It is waging a battle for its land," the Turkish strongman said of the organization that committed the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust. The Foreign Ministry responded: "Israel rejects with disgust the despicable;e words of the Turkish president about the terrorist organization Hamas." The Foreign Ministry added that "Hamas is an abominable terrorist organization worse than ISIS and brutally and intentionally murders babies, children, women and the elderly, takes citizens hostage and uses its own people as human shields. Even the Turkish president's attempt to defend the terrorist organization and his inciting words will not change the horrors that the whole world saw and the unequivocal fact: Hamas is ISIS."