US envoy to Israel’s rare trip to Egypt postponed: US official

JERUSALEM: A visit to Egypt by Washington’s top envoy to Israel, Mike Huckabee, has been postponed, a US official told AFP on Sunday. Earlier, a US embassy spokesperson had said that Huckabee would be visiting Cairo for talks with Egyptian officials, making what media reports said would have been a rare trip by a sitting US envoy. “The trip has been postponed,” the official said, without providing further details. Media reports said the talks had been expected to focus on the Gaza war, which has strained relations between Israel and Cairo.