El-Sisi and Trump to chair Gaza summit in Egypt on Monday

Donald Trump and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi volition seat an planetary acme to sermon the US president’s connection to extremity Israel’s warfare connected Gaza successful Sharm el-Sheikh connected Monday.

The gathering volition impact leaders from much than 20 countries, the Egyptian presidency said successful a connection connected Saturday.

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It volition purpose “to extremity the warfare successful the Gaza Strip, heighten efforts to execute bid and stableness successful the Middle East, and usher successful a caller epoch of determination information and stability”, the connection said.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer said they would attend, on with Italy’s Giorgia Meloni and Pedro Sanchez of Spain. French President Emmanuel Macron has besides confirmed his attendance.

It was not instantly wide whether Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, oregon immoderate representatives of the Hamas Palestinian group, would attend.

The announcement comes arsenic tens of thousands of Palestinians streamed northbound on the seashore of Gaza, by foot, car and cart back, to their abandoned and mostly destroyed homes successful the Strip, arsenic a ceasefire betwixt Israel and Hamas appeared to beryllium holding.

Israeli troops partially pulled backmost nether the archetypal signifier of a US-brokered statement reached this week to extremity Israel’s warfare connected Gaza, which has killed much than 67,000 radical and near overmuch of the famine-struck enclave successful ruins.

Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Gaza City, said that the ceasefire “ended 1 signifier of violence, but the conflict continues”.

“People locomotion this exhausting, tiring travel backmost present [in the north] due to the fact that they beryllium here. They support telling america that they beryllium to this portion of the Palestinian territory of the Gaza Strip, and they volition ne'er beryllium uprooted from here,” Mahmoud said.

“But spending a nighttime present is going to beryllium precise difficult,” helium said. “The conflict to past continues to contiguous itself successful the astir assertive way, not each time but each hour.”

Gaza’s Government Media Office has said that 5,000 nationalist operations person been carried retired aft the ceasefire came into unit to amended the lives of Palestinians successful the enclave.

Among them are much than 850 rescue and alleviation missions carried retired by the Gaza Civil Defence, constabulary and municipal teams to retrieve bodies, region rubble and unafraid destroyed areas.

About 150 bodies person been recovered from assorted areas crossed the enclave since Friday morning, the Civil Defence said. Separately, Nasser Hospital reported that 28 bodies were recovered from confederate Gaza’s Khan Younis alone.

More than 900 work missions to reconstruct h2o and sewage lines person besides been carried out, the bureau added.

These missions are being carried retired with the bare minimum of resources arsenic Israel’s blockade connected Gaza remains successful place, restricting the introduction of substance and equipment. During the genocide, Israeli attacks destroyed ambulances, occurrence trucks and civilian defence centres, further crippling exigency and betterment efforts crossed the enclave.

The politician of Khan Younis said that 85 percent of the confederate Gaza governorate has been destroyed by Israeli attacks, adding that astir 400,000 tonnes of rubble indispensable beryllium removed from the city’s streets.

Calls for crossings to open

Aid groups person besides urged Israel to reopen much crossings to let assistance into Gaza.

The World Food Programme (WFP) said it was acceptable to reconstruct 145 nutrient organisation points crossed the territory, erstwhile Israel allows for expanded deliveries. Before Israel wholly sealed disconnected Gaza successful March, United Nations agencies provided nutrient astatine 400 organisation points.

“What is astir important present for america to scope the northbound is crossings to beryllium opened,” Antoine Renard, a WFP typical and the state manager for Palestine, told Al Jazeera from Deir el-Balah.

He explained that successful a erstwhile ceasefire successful January, the WFP had enabled “practically a 3rd of each the antithetic goods that managed to participate into Gaza”.

“The conditions should beryllium the aforesaid [now]. We expect that the bully practices that we had successful January 2025 volition beryllium again applied successful this ceasefire,” Renard said.

Izzat al-Risheq, a subordinate of Hamas’s governmental bureau, said the radical is moving with “friendly countries” to guarantee the introduction of assistance into Gaza, “despite the monolithic demolition caused by the war”.

UNICEF spokesperson Tess Ingram said connected Saturday that the children’s bureau expects to importantly standard up supplies of high-energy nutrient for malnourished children, menstrual hygiene supplies and tents, starting connected Sunday.

Meanwhile, Israeli captives held successful Gaza by Hamas and different equipped groups are expected to “come back” connected Monday, US President Trump said, with 20 surviving captives and the bodies of 28 others owed to beryllium handed implicit arsenic portion of the ceasefire deal.

In exchange, Israel is owed to merchandise immoderate 250 Palestinians held successful Israeli prisons, arsenic good arsenic astir 1,700 radical detained from Gaza implicit the past 2 years of warfare and held without charge. The Israel Prison Service said that detainees person been transferred to deportation facilities astatine Ofer and Ktzi’ot prisons, “awaiting instructions from the governmental echelon”.

In past exchanges, Israel has delayed the merchandise of Palestinian prisoners and subjected them to harsh treatment, including carnal abuse, humiliation and restrictions connected household contact, earlier yet releasing them. Rights groups person documented galore cases of Palestinians arriving successful dire wellness conditions aft prolonged interrogation and detention without complaint oregon trial.

In Tel Aviv, tens of thousands of radical gathered successful Hostages Square aft 2 years of protests led by household members of captives calling for their return.

Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and his daughter, Ivanka Trump, took the signifier successful the quadrate with the US Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, who played a cardinal relation successful the ceasefire negotiations.

“I dreamed of this night. It’s been a agelong journey,” Witkoff said. Some yelled, “Thank you, Trump, convey you Witkoff”, and booed erstwhile the envoy mentioned Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.

Turning to the captives, Witkoff said: “As you instrumentality to the clasp of your families and your nation, cognize that each of Israel and the full satellite stands acceptable to invited you location with unfastened arms and endless love.”

Al Jazeera’s Hamdah Salhut said that Israeli captives’ families recognition Trump for the deal, not Netanyahu.

“The household members of captives person nary religion successful their government, nary religion successful the Israeli premier minister, whom they accused of prolonging the warfare for his ain idiosyncratic and governmental gain,” Salhut said.

“The cheers for [Trump] and for Steve Witkoff travel due to the fact that the household members and those who are protesting accidental this happened due to the fact that of the Americans.”