With the Gaza Strip in its backyard, Egypt has already mediated several times between Hamas and Fatah, and has been trying, so far unsuccessfully, to arrange a swap of prisoners with Israel following Hamas’s abduction of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.
Con la Franja de Gaza en su patio trasero, Egipto ya ha mediado varias veces entre Hamás y Fatah, y ha intentado -hasta el momento sin éxito- de arreglar un intercambio de prisioneros con Israel, tras el secuestro por Hamás del soldado israelí Gilad Shalit.