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00:00 The war in Gaza is putting pressure on the neighboring countries of Palestine.
00:04 This is not a speculation, but Egypt is clearly suffering from this war,
00:10 even now, even though all changes or effects have not been accurately calculated.
00:16 But at the level of tourism, and we are talking about
00:20 sharp Egyptian attempts to attract tourists to Egypt and increase the number of tourists.
00:27 Egypt was aiming to reach 15 million tourists by the end of this year.
00:33 But this number, according to the Egyptian Tourism Organization,
00:37 did not reach 70%.
00:39 We are waiting for the rest of this year to find out the levels that these numbers have reached.
00:45 This is one side.
00:46 On the other hand, there is a cancellation of some reservations,
00:49 according to what the Egyptian Minister of Tourism, Ahmed Eissa, said,
00:53 that this percentage is less than 10%.
00:56 We are talking about the number of tourists in hotels and tourist facilities
01:00 in the cities located on the Red Sea, which are in Sinai.
01:03 We are talking about Taba, Weba, Sharm El Sheikh.
01:06 These cities have been severely damaged.
01:08 And the operators are saying that there is a 90% cancellation of tourist facilities,
01:13 whether at the level of hotels or resorts and camps.
01:17 We have seen a 90% cancellation, according to the operators.
01:21 We are talking about the number of tourist reservations,
01:24 which in the past, according to the Central Bank of Egypt,
01:27 was 13.6 billion dollars.
01:29 If we also look at the number of Israeli tourists,
01:32 who used to come to Egypt, about 35,000 Israeli tourists
01:36 used to come to Egypt to stay in the Sharm El Sheikh and Taba areas.
01:40 From Israel, also, at the beginning of the war,
01:43 the exports of coal and gas to Egypt stopped,
01:47 and that was 15% of the Egyptian imports from Israel.
01:52 These exports of coal and gas, when they stopped,
01:55 reached zero levels, we have seen.
01:58 Therefore, there was a stop or repeated cuts in electricity in Egypt.
02:02 And when it returned, the full capacity did not return.
02:05 Egypt imported about 860 million cubic feet per day,
02:10 but the supplies reached, even after the return or the reopening of coal,
02:14 after the beginning of the war, to 350 to 400 million barrels of coal.
02:20 And that is a fruit field.
02:22 Therefore, the previous levels did not return.
02:25 Based on that, and the great economic pressure on the Egyptian economy,
02:29 we have seen the International Monetary Fund,
02:31 which studies the increase in the program provided to Egypt
02:33 by 3 billion dollars.
02:35 The fund did not specify the size of this increase,
02:38 but it looks at this increase and studies it.
02:41 And all this comes within the framework of an economic crisis
02:44 that is still present in Egypt, from high inflation,
02:47 and the dollar is also in a slump in the Egyptian market.