During a meeting with officials at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jacob Amitai, Israeli ambassador to Egypt, apologized for Israel's mistreatment of Christian Egyptian Embassy staff in Israel, who were on their way to participate in the Holy Easter Mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. This action was an attempt to ease tensions between the two states, although Bishop Marqus of Shubrā al-Khaymah stressed that the Jewish state is not concerned with religions as their apology failed to address the attacks on the Church ('Imād Khalīl, al-Misrī al-Yawm, May 10, p. 3). Read original text in Arabic.