Okasha talked about his meeting with Koren, saying the two agreed that Israel “has a key role in the issue of the dam” being built by Ethiopia on the Nile. Live footage broadcast by private television channel CBC Extra on Sunday showed some lawmakers escorting the shoe throwing MP from the assembly as he waved his shoe.
“I expressed the Egyptian people’s opinion. This shoe wasn’t just intended for Tawfiq Okasha’s face and head, but also for the Knesset and the Zionist entity,” .
Lawmakers said they had called for an internal investigation over the comments made by Okasha, “He has been referred to a special parliamentary committee for his statements, which are insults to parliament, the people and national security,” lawmaker Mustafa al-Bakry told AFP. “We can expect him to lose his membership, which would be the biggest punishment,” another lawmaker, Khaled Youssef, told AFP.