CAIRO, November 14. /TASS/. The situation in the Gaza Strip and Egypt’s efforts to deescalate the conflict, deliver humanitarian assistance and evacuate foreign citizens from the enclave were the focus of a phone call between the Egyptian and Russian presidents, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Vladimir Putin, Egyptian presidential spokesman Ahmed Fahmy said on Tuesday.

"The two leaders’ conversation focused on the developments in the Gaza Strip, de-escalation efforts, as well as steps taken by Egypt to deliver humanitarian aid, evacuate foreign nationals and wounded Palestinians from the enclave," he wrote on his Facebook page (Facebook is banned in Russia due to its ownership by Meta, which has been designated as extremist).

"The Egyptian and Russian presidents agreed to invigorate international efforts to establish an immediate ceasefire, deliver emergency humanitarian assistance, and to take necessary steps to protect the civilian population and stop the bloodshed in order to settle the conflict by political means on the basis of a two-state solution," he wrote.

Apart from that, Al-Sisi and Putin also exchanged views on "ways of strengthening bilateral relations in a range of areas of joint cooperation," he added.