Hamas said it was ready to release all the hostages following U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal for a “Gaza peace plan” on Friday, an announcement that many European leaders welcomed.
Despite Trump calling on Israel to stop bombing the coastal Palestinian enclave on Friday, Israel’s offensive on Gaza continued on Saturday, with dozens of people killed. Yemen’s Houthi rebel group also launched a missile at Israel on Saturday, which Israel intercepted, Al Jazeera reported.
The Israeli delegation will include Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, while Hamas could send senior officials Ghazi Hamad, Osama Hamdan and Muhamed Darwish, according to local media reports.
The White House said Trump had sent two envoys to Egypt, U.S. Middle East negotiator Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, American businessman and Trump’s son-in-law.
Trump’s Gaza peace plan says that the territory should be governed by a temporary “technocratic, apolitical Palestinian committee” that would be supervised by an international body chaired by the U.S. president.