Donald Trump and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi will chair a world summit to debate the US president’s proposal to finish Israel’s warfare on Gaza in Sharm el-Sheikh on Monday.
The assembly will contain leaders from greater than 20 international locations, the Egyptian presidency stated in a press release on Saturday.
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It’ll goal “to finish the warfare within the Gaza Strip, improve efforts to realize peace and stability within the Center East, and usher in a brand new period of regional safety and stability”, the assertion stated.
United Nations Secretary-Common Antonio Guterres and United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer stated they might attend, together with Italy’s Giorgia Meloni and Pedro Sanchez of Spain. French President Emmanuel Macron has additionally confirmed his attendance.
It was not instantly clear whether or not Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, or any representatives of the Hamas Palestinian group, would attend.
The announcement comes as tens of hundreds of Palestinians streamed north alongside the coast of Gaza, by foot, automobile and cart again, to their deserted and largely destroyed houses within the Strip, as a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas gave the impression to be holding.
Israeli troops partially pulled again underneath the primary section of a US-brokered settlement reached this week to finish Israel’s warfare on Gaza, which has killed greater than 67,000 folks and left a lot of the famine-struck enclave in ruins.
Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Gaza Metropolis, stated that the ceasefire “ended one type of violence, however the wrestle continues”.
“Individuals stroll this exhausting, tiring journey again right here (within the north) as a result of they belong right here. They hold telling us that they belong to this a part of the Palestinian territory of the Gaza Strip, and they’re going to by no means be uprooted from right here,” Mahmoud stated.
“However spending an evening right here goes to be very troublesome,” he stated. “The wrestle to outlive continues to current itself in probably the most aggressive manner, not every day however every hour.”
Gaza’s Authorities Media Workplace has stated that 5,000 public operations have been carried out after the ceasefire got here into power to enhance the lives of Palestinians within the enclave.
Amongst them are greater than 850 rescue and reduction missions carried out by the Gaza Civil Defence, police and municipal groups to get well our bodies, take away rubble and safe destroyed areas.
About 150 our bodies have been recovered from varied areas throughout the enclave since Friday morning, the Civil Defence stated. Individually, Nasser Hospital reported that 28 our bodies had been recovered from southern Gaza’s Khan Younis alone.
Greater than 900 service missions to revive water and sewage strains have additionally been carried out, the company added.
These missions are being carried out with the naked minimal of assets as Israel’s blockade on Gaza stays in place, proscribing the entry of gas and tools. Throughout the genocide, Israeli assaults destroyed ambulances, fireplace vans and civil defence centres, additional crippling emergency and restoration efforts throughout the enclave.
The mayor of Khan Younis stated that 85 % of the southern Gaza governorate has been destroyed by Israeli assaults, including that about 400,000 tonnes of rubble should be faraway from the town’s streets.
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Support teams have additionally urged Israel to reopen extra crossings to permit assist into Gaza.
The World Meals Programme (WFP) stated it was prepared to revive 145 meals distribution factors throughout the territory, as soon as Israel permits for expanded deliveries. Earlier than Israel utterly sealed off Gaza in March, United Nations businesses supplied meals at 400 distribution factors.
“What’s most vital now for us to succeed in the north is crossings to be opened,” Antoine Renard, a WFP consultant and the nation director for Palestine, advised Al Jazeera from Deir el-Balah.
He defined that in a earlier ceasefire in January, the WFP had enabled “virtually a 3rd of all of the totally different items that managed to enter into Gaza”.
“The situations needs to be the identical (now). We anticipate that the great practices that we had in January 2025 might be once more utilized on this ceasefire,” Renard stated.
Izzat al-Risheq, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, stated the group is working with “pleasant international locations” to make sure the entry of assist into Gaza, “regardless of the large destruction attributable to the warfare”.
UNICEF spokesperson Tess Ingram stated on Saturday that the youngsters’s company expects to considerably scale up provides of high-energy meals for malnourished kids, menstrual hygiene provides and tents, beginning on Sunday.
In the meantime, Israeli captives held in Gaza by Hamas and different armed teams are anticipated to “come again” on Monday, US President Trump stated, with 20 residing captives and the our bodies of 28 others on account of be handed over as a part of the ceasefire deal.
In change, Israel is because of launch some 250 Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, in addition to about 1,700 folks detained from Gaza over the previous two years of warfare and held with out cost. The Israel Jail Service stated that detainees have been transferred to deportation services at Ofer and Ktzi’ot prisons, “awaiting directions from the political echelon”.
In previous exchanges, Israel has delayed the discharge of Palestinian prisoners and subjected them to harsh therapy, together with bodily abuse, humiliation and restrictions on household contact, earlier than ultimately releasing them. Rights teams have documented quite a few instances of Palestinians arriving in dire well being situations after extended interrogation and detention with out cost or trial.
In Tel Aviv, tens of hundreds of individuals gathered in Hostages Sq. after two years of protests led by members of the family of captives calling for his or her return.
Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and his daughter, Ivanka Trump, took the stage within the sq. with the US Center East envoy, Steve Witkoff, who performed a key function within the ceasefire negotiations.
“I dreamed of this evening. It’s been a protracted journey,” Witkoff stated. Some yelled, “Thanks, Trump, thanks Witkoff”, and booed when the envoy talked about Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.
Turning to the captives, Witkoff stated: “As you come to the embrace of your households and your nation, know that each one of Israel and the complete world stands able to welcome you dwelling with open arms and infinite love.”
Al Jazeera’s Hamdah Salhut stated that Israeli captives’ households credit score Trump for the deal, not Netanyahu.
“The members of the family of captives haven’t any religion of their authorities, no religion within the Israeli prime minister, whom they accused of prolonging the warfare for his personal private and political achieve,” Salhut stated.
“The cheers for (Trump) and for Steve Witkoff come as a result of the members of the family and those that are protesting say this occurred due to the People.”
