EGYPT PERSPECTIVE

Cairo denounces a truce that is an illusion while Beirut burns. Egyptian Streets documents with precision the 'most intense' Israeli strikes on central and coastal Beirut, occurring just hours after the US-Iran ceasefire announcement. For Egypt, this juxtaposition is unbearable: how can one celebrate a truce when Israeli jets are bombing an Arab capital? Egyptian framing is the most critical of Israel in the panel — a reflection of Egyptian public opinion, overwhelmingly pro-Palestinian and pro-Lebanese despite the Camp David accords. Egyptian Streets provides operational details that American media ignores: strike intensity, civilian areas hit, the deliberate post-announcement timing. Egypt, guardian of the Suez Canal and Gaza's neighbor, sees the ceasefire as an arrangement between great powers that ignores Arab victims.