President El-Sisi awarded King Felipe VI the Order of the Nile, Egypt’s highest state honor. He also presented Queen Letizia with the Order of the Virtues in its highest class.

The king and the queen began their day in Cairo, as part of a four-day visit to Egypt, with a wreath-laying ceremony at the Unknown Soldier Memorial in Nasr City district.

“The latest episode in this conflict... has degenerated into an unbearable humanitarian crisis, the unspeakable suffering of hundreds of thousands of innocent people and the total devastation of Gaza,” the monarch said, according to the AFP.