Smotrich says Egypt will lose Sinai if it attacks Israel — Anadolu Agency

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said that Egypt would lose the Sinai Peninsula if it attacked Israel. As reported by Anadolu Agency, the politician made the statement in a video interview from his home ahead of Egypt's commemoration of the anniversary of the 1973 war.

Smotrich's statement

“What will make Egypt not attack us? The understanding that if they attack us, then at least there will be no Sinai,” Smotrich said. According to him, such a scenario “will not happen again.”

Egyptian authorities did not immediately comment on the remarks.

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Statement by Egypt's president

Earlier that day, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said that the country's armed forces were ready to defend Egypt, its resources and national security “at any time and under any circumstances.”

Egypt and Israel signed a peace treaty in Washington in March 1979 following the 1978 Camp David Accords. The document ended the state of war between the two countries and provided for the withdrawal of Israeli forces from the Sinai Peninsula. The treaty has remained the basis of official relations between Egypt and Israel for decades.