Donald Trump and Abdel Fatah al-Sisi to chair Gaza peace summit on Monday

[ad_1] Donald Trump and the Egyptian president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi , are on account of chair a Gaza peace summit with a number of world leaders in Sharm el-Sheikh on Monday.

The assembly will happen on Monday afternoon in Egypt’s Purple Sea resort metropolis of Sharm el-Sheikh “with the participation of leaders from greater than 20 international locations”, the Egyptian presidency mentioned.

It'll purpose “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 UN secretary common, António Guterres, mentioned he would attend, as will Britain’s prime minister, Keir Starmer, his Italian counterpart, Giorgia Meloni, and Pedro Sánchez of Spain. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has additionally confirmed his attendance.

There was no quick phrase about whether or not Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu can be in Sharm el-Sheikh. Hamas has mentioned it won't participate.

On Saturday, three Qatari diplomats had been killed in a automotive crash on the Purple Sea resort, two safety sources advised Reuters. Two diplomats had been additionally wounded, the safety sources mentioned.

The summit was organized after Israel and Hamas agreed on a ceasefire and prisoner-swap deal after intense oblique negotiations in Sharm el-Sheikh in latest days. Greater than 67,000 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have been killed in Israel’s assault on Gaza. The warfare started after a Hamas-led incursion into Israel during which 1,200 folks had been killed and 251 taken hostage.

The negotiations, mediated by Egypt, Qatar and Turkey, and involving US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, precipitated the truce and subsequent improve of humanitarian help into Gaza.

The announcement got here as hundreds of Palestinians journeyed along the north of Gaza on Saturday, trekking by foot, automotive and cart again to what was left of their properties.

“It's an indescribable feeling; reward be to God,” Nabila Basa advised Reuters, as she travelled by foot along with her daughter, who she mentioned had suffered a head wound within the warfare. “We're very, very blissful that the warfare has stopped, and the struggling has ended.”

For a lot of in Gaza, there isn't any house to return to, because the warfare has lowered their neighbourhoods to mud after two years of heavy bombardment.

“My home, which I constructed 40 years in the past, was gone in a second,” mentioned Ahmed al-Jabari, as he stood within the wreckage of a Gaza Metropolis road. “I’m blissful that there isn't any blood, no killing (however) the place will we go? Will we reside 20 years in a tent?”