Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdel-Atty said on Friday that a ceasefire is urgently needed in the Gaza Strip to stop an escalation in the Middle East and to avoid dragging it into a regional war “It is possible, as you know, to stop this escalation and work as much as possible and as quickly as possible to reach an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip … ,” the Egyptian minister said after meeting Lebanese House Speaker Nabih Berri, according to the state-run National News Agency (NNA). Abdel-Atty’s comments in Beirut came shortly before a joint statement from the mediating countries Qatar…