they like. False peace will not last.". After Sadat's assassination, Hosni Mubarak continued the peace process and had maintained relations with Israel. Nevertheless, Egypt was one of the first countries to support the Palestinian Declaration of Independence and officially recognized Palestine on 15 November 1988. Egypt during the peace process After Sadat's assassination, Hosni Mubarak became president of Egypt and began a policy of reconciliation with the Arab states while balancing Egypt's relationship with the US and Israel. Arafat meet Mubarak in Cairo in 1983. Egypt was one of the first countries to support the Palestinian Declaration of Independence and officially recognized Palestine on 15 November 1988. Mubarak would have a large involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. In 1993, Mubarak hosted the Cairo Summit with both Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Arafat. The next year, Egypt hosted the Gaza-Jericho agreement. In 2001, Egypt hosted the Taba Summit, which was one of the closest moments when peace could be achieved. In 2005, Egypt hosted the Sharm El Sheikh Summit, a meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, and King Abdullah II of Jordan to mark the end of the Second Intifada. On 19 June 2008, the Egypt-brokered "lull" or pause in hostilities between Israel and Hamas went into effect. The term "lull" is a translation of the Arabic term Tahdiya. The agreement required Hamas to end rocket attacks on Israel and to enforce the lull throughout Gaza. In exchange, Hamas expected the blockade to end, commerce in Gaza to resume, and truck shipments to be restored to 2005 levels, which was between 500 and 600 trucks per day. Israel eased restrictions on the blockade to a reduction in rocket fire and gradually re-opened supply lines and permitted around 90 daily truck shipments to enter Gaza, up from around 70 per day. Hamas criticized Israel for its continued blockade while Israel accused Hamas of continued weapons smuggling via tunnels to Egypt and pointed to continued rocket attacks. During the 2008-2009 Gaza War, Egypt condemned the Israeli attacks, but Egypt’s foreign minister, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, said that Egypt has long warned Hamas that this would be Israel’s response should Qassam fire continue. As a result of many protests, Egypt opened up the Rafah Border Crossing to allow the wounded into Egyptian hospitals. The Egyptian Ministry of Health sent 30 buses