Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is sending a delegation to Egypt for talks to resolve the situation in the Gaza Strip. The talks will be held in Sharm el-Sheikh on the Sinai Peninsula, the Israeli prime minister's office confirmed.
According to the statement, the negotiating team will be led by Israeli Strategic Planning Minister Ron Dermer. “The delegation will leave for Sharm el-Sheikh tomorrow”, the office noted.
On October 4, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry announced that a new round of indirect talks between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement would be held on October 6 in the Arab Republic. The specific city planned for the talks was not disclosed. The same day, the Egyptian television channel Al-Qahira al-Ikhbariya reported that the meetings were planned for Cairo, although the pan-Arab channel Al Hadath suggested that the talks could be held in Sharm el-Sheikh.
On September 29, the White House unveiled the US president's "comprehensive plan" for resolving the conflict in the Gaza Strip. This 20-point document calls for the imposition of temporary external rule in the Palestinian enclave and the deployment of an international stabilization force there. Israel announced its agreement with the plan.
On October 3, Hamas announced that it had submitted its response to the US president's proposal for Gaza to mediators. The radicals expressed their readiness to release all living Israeli hostages held in the enclave and to hand over the bodies of the dead. Meanwhile, Hamas politburo member Musa Abu Marzouk expressed doubts that all prisoners could be released within 72 hours, as envisaged in Trump's plan, due to current conditions on the ground.
In response, the White House said it "will not tolerate delays that many consider inevitable" and that Hamas, it said, must act quickly or "all will be lost."