Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi talk about developments within the Center East with Jared Kushner, adviser and son-in-law to U.S. President Donald Trump, with the implementation of the ceasefire settlement within the Gaza Strip being a key matter, in El Alamein, Egypt on Aug. 16, 2026.
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U.S. President Donald Trump’s envoys met with Egyptian, Qatari and Turkish mediators in Cairo on Sunday, a diplomatic supply stated, aiming to advance the president’s Gaza peace plan, at the same time as Israel pressed on with airstrikes within the enclave.
Hamas officers had been current at a number of the conferences that mediators held with Trump’s envoy and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and Trump’s Board of Peace envoy for Gaza, Nickolay Mladenov, the diplomat stated.
A senior Israeli official stated Kushner and Mladenov had been scheduled to fulfill on Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who on Aug. 9 stated Trump’s newest roadmap for Gaza peace was ‘unacceptable.’
Gaza medics say strikes wounded a number of folks
The official stated Israel was involved about Washington’s demand to finish focused assassinations of Hamas militants in Gaza because the group rebuilds its forces.
Trump’s peace plan requires the instant cessation of navy operations in Gaza. It foresees Hamas disarming as Israeli troops withdraw from the enclave and as Gaza is rebuilt beneath a brand new civilian Palestinian administration.
Israel has resumed airstrikes previously few days after scaling again its assaults within the enclave earlier this month.
The Israeli navy stated on Sunday that its plane struck two Islamic Jihad and Hamas militants in Khan Younis and Nuseirat. At the least 5 Palestinians had been wounded within the strike, which hit a tent encampment, medics within the enclave stated.
A type of wounded within the strike on Khan Younis in southern Gaza died from their wounds, medics at Nasser Hospital stated later.
A separate airstrike, which the Israeli navy stated focused one other militant, hit an residence within the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza, wounding a number of folks, medics stated.
Earlier, Hamas chief Khalil Al-Hayya met with Egypt’s intelligence chief Hassan Rashad in Cairo. Hazem Qassem, a Hamas spokesperson in Gaza, stated Al-Hayya would transient mediators on what he stated had been Israel’s ceasefire violations.
Muslim powers condemn Israeli rejection of plan
Trump introduced final month that there had been a breakthrough in his plan to finish the struggle.
Hamas stated it had agreed to the plan to keep away from a resumption of the battle, however added that implementation of the deal would depend upon Israel first assembly its personal commitments, together with withdrawing its forces and halting assaults.
5 Arab international locations and Turkey, Pakistan and Indonesia condemned Israel’s rejection of the plan, saying in a joint assertion on Sunday that it threatens Trump’s efforts to finish the struggle in Gaza.
A spokesperson for Netanyahu didn’t instantly reply to a request for touch upon the joint assertion.
Netanyahu’s Likud celebration, which has been struggling within the polls forward of an Oct. 27 nationwide election, stated in a submit on X that the Arab international locations need to topple Netanyahu in order that his political rivals will “give them the whole lot that they need.”
Hamas on Sunday known as on mediators and the Board of Peace, which was arrange as a part of Trump’s peace plan, to compel Israel to fulfill its obligations of the plan’s first section, finish its violations of the ceasefire settlement, and approve the roadmap for the second section of the plan, in accordance with a press release from the group.
An October ceasefire halted main combating in a devastating two-year struggle in Gaza that was sparked by Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, assault on Israel, but it surely failed to finish Israeli assaults completely.
Israeli fireplace has killed greater than 1,250 Palestinians in Gaza, most of them civilians, since October 2025. It’s unclear what number of of these killed had been militants, as Hamas doesn’t normally disclose details about useless fighters.
4 Israeli troopers had been killed by militants in Gaza over the identical interval, in accordance with Israeli figures.
