Abu al-Ghaith: Israel and Ethiopia to pay for the construction of the Ennahda Dam.
The Secretary-General of the Arab League, while supporting Sudan and Egypt in the case of the Ennahda Dam, placed Addis Ababa and Tel Aviv in a single stronghold and said that they would pay the price for the construction of the system.
“Ethiopia and Israel will pay the price for the construction of the Ennahda Dam, which caused a crisis between Addis Ababa on the one hand and Cairo and Khartoum on the other,” said Ahmed Abu al-Gheit, secretary general of the Arab League.
“I do not know the name of this dam is Ennahda, but it is a dam to destroy relations between the two Arab countries, or at least it looks like it is called a dam,” he said in an interview with Egypt’s MBC television. .
“Ethiopia laid the foundation stone of the Dam of Destruction, or what is known as the Ennahda Dam, on April 1, 2011, and Israel saw it as a historic honeymoon and a great opportunity, but they will pay the price after 20 years,” he added. کرد ».
According to Russia Today, he claimed in another part of his speech that the catastrophic situation that the Arab world has recently witnessed created an opportunity for Turkey, Israel, Ethiopia and Iran to intervene in Arab affairs.
“If the Arab League disintegrates, Iran, Turkey, Israel and Ethiopia will take action and become a regional organization in the Middle East,” he said, warning of negative comments about the Arab League. “They will create.”
Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia have been negotiating unsuccessfully for 10 years over the Ethiopian Ennahda Dam. The $ 5 billion dam is the largest hydroelectric dam in Africa up to 6,500 megawatts. Tensions over the dam have been escalating for several months between the two countries since Addis Ababa launched it.
Ethiopia hopes to develop and produce energy through the dam, but Sudan is worried about the flow of water in its dams, and Egypt fears the dam will affect its water resources.
Ethiopia’s construction and flooding of the Ennahda Dam has become one of the biggest economic, social and environmental challenges for Egypt and Sudan, and as the Egyptian authorities say, the complete flooding of the dam could be a pervasive crisis for Egypt and Sudan and future generations. Become.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi welcomed the growth and development of the Ennahda Dam in 2015 when he signed an agreement (albeit unsuccessful) with Ethiopia, saying: It Depends”.
Most Egyptian political observers and a number of Egyptian politicians, meanwhile, say the Ennahda Dam crisis is in fact a political crisis aimed at diverting water from the Nile to Israel, and Tel Aviv from Ethiopia to pressure Egypt to fulfill its dream. It uses its “Nile to Euphrates”.