US delegation led by Steve Witkoff due to arrive in Egypt for Gaza talks | Gaza

An US delegation led by Envoy Steve Witkoff is expected to attend the negotiations in Egypt on Wednesday to strengthen the participation of President Donald Trump in Gaza’s newly initiated negotiations between Hamas and Israel, aiming to end the war in Gaza.

Indirect negotiations in Sharm al-Sheikh, the city of Egypt in the Red Sea, entered the second day on the second anniversary of the Hamas surprise attack, which triggered bloody conflict against Israel.

Last week, Trump announced a 20 -point plan to end the war of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas in Gaza, which was accepted as a basis for further forward talks. Both sides have expressed more than one reservation, and only looking for significant changes in most of its poorly defined provisions.

On Tuesday, Trump said it was a “real agreement” while I met Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at the White House.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelaty said the main focus of the talks was the release of cease -fire and Israeli hostages and a number of Palestinian prisoners.

The authority said that the parties discussed the maps showing areas from the areas where the Israeli forces will retreat in the first stage, which includes the “full and unconditional” delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza through the UN.

In his message marking his anniversary, Benjamin Netanyahu promised to achieve all the goals of the war, including crushing Hamas.

Israeli Prime Minister said on Tuesday evening, “Fate, the decisive day,” he said. “We will continue to take action to achieve all the goals of the war: the return of all kidnappers, the elimination of Hamas’s rule and Gaza never poses a threat to Israel again.”

Before the restarts of the talks on Tuesday, UN Secretary General António Guterres asked for an end to hostility to hostility, which creates a humanitarian disaster on a scale that challenges comprehension.

During the attack on October 7, 2023, Hamas militants killed approximately 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took 251 hostages, 47 of them were captured in Gaza, 25 Israeli army said they had died.

The following Israeli attack killed more than 67,000 people, mostly civilians, wounded more than 170,000, and reduced most of Gaza as rubble.

Trump’s plan received widespread international support, including the Arab and Islamic worlds.

In Washington, White House spokesman Karoline Leavitt said that Witkoff and Trump’s son -in -law Jared Kushner would take part in the talks and allow the president. It is important that we do this quickly ”.

Netanyahu said that the talks would be “limited to a few days, and that Trump should move quickly, otherwise all bets will be closed”.

However, many uncertainties, including the demand for disarmament of Hamas, the scope of the withdrawal of Israeli forces, and the future governance of Gaza, continue.

On Tuesday, Fawzi Barhum, a senior HAMAS official, added that the group’s delegation was trying to overcome all obstacles üzere to reach a settlement, and that the 2023 attack on Israel was “a“ historical reaction to the attempts to eliminate the Palestinian case ”.

Netanyahu said that Hamas had to surrender and be disarmed for a long time, but this has become one of the most controversial parts of Trump’s plan, which requires Hamas’s “military infrastructure” be eliminated.

However, it is unclear whether this can be included in light weapons that Hamas fighters do not want to give up.

A umbrella of the Palestinian factions, including Hamas, who underlined the obstacles in the negotiations, promised “of course the resistance stance ve and said,“ No one has the right to leave the Palestinian people’s weapons ”.

The plan foresees an international security forces in Gaza, which is probably composed of Arab or Muslim troops. The region was later under a technocratic committee and international governance in surveillance roles with former British Prime Minister Trump and Tony Blair. Hamas, who seized power in Gaza in 2007, said that he wanted to surrender politically to an independent Palestinian body.

Osama Hamdan, a second HAMAS official, said that Hamas will reject Gaza’s foreign administration on the Al Araby television network and that the entry of foreign powers would be “unacceptable”.

Within the scope of the plan, Israel would release 250 Palestinians who were sentenced to life imprisonment in their prisons and 1,700 people detained from Gaza, including all women and children since the war began. It is likely that there will be severe disagreements about who is released.

Qatar Foreign Ministry spokesman said in a statement on Tuesday, Israel should stop operations in Gaza already compatible with the plan, and that he was careful about the expectations of negotiations after more than one unsuccessful effort to end the war.

The fires organized in November 2023 and January 2025 collapsed two weeks later and the second two months later.

“I have no doubt that this negotiation tour is a process in which all parties are determined to reach an agreement, but there are many details to be considered,” he said.

Trump called on all hostilities in Gaza to suspend all hostilities and published the truth on the social platform last week: “Israel should stop the bombing of Gaza immediately, so that we can take the hostages safely and quickly!”

In the city of Gaza, the residents said that the Israeli attacks continued until the early morning hours of Tuesday, but there was no casualty report. It was reported that a rocket was initiated from Northern Gaza to Israel, but it did not cause damage or injury.

Part of the plan is to increase humanitarian aid to Gaza, where more than 2 million Palestinians face hunger and famine in some regions.

UN spokesman Stéphane Dujarric said the organization is ready to take action.

Dujarr, “the machine is ready to go as soon as the green light buy the crank and ready to go. Jordan, Israel’s Ashdod and other places ready to enter the port of goods in the pipeline, there are thousands of metric tones,” he said.