Sementara itu, Abbas tiba Senin malam di ibukota Mesir, Kairo, tempat ia direncanakan mengadakan pembicaraan Selasa dengan Presiden Mesir Hosni Mubarak mengenai situasi yang memburuk di Jalur Gaza, kata satu sumber bandar udara di ibukota Mesir tersebut.
Abbas, meanwhile, arrived late Monday in Cairo where he was to hold talks Tuesday with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on the deteriorating situation in the Gaza Strip, an airport source in the Egyptian capital said.