Turkiye hosts summit on Gaza, says Israel must stop ceasefire violations

Top diplomats from Arab and Muslim nations sermon plans for an planetary unit for Gaza, arsenic projected by the US.

Turkiye has called connected Israel to halt its repeated violations of a United States-brokered ceasefire successful Gaza and fto important humanitarian assistance participate the embattled Palestinian enclave.

Turkiye’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan made the connection aft apical diplomats from respective Arab and Muslim countries met successful Istanbul connected Monday to sermon a United Nations mandate for an planetary stabilisation unit successful Gaza, arsenic projected successful a 20-point plan by US President Donald Trump to extremity the war.

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Turkiye hosted the overseas ministers of Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Pakistan, and Indonesia astatine the summit.

After the meeting, Fidan said Israel has failed to fulfill its responsibilities laid retired successful the US program by “regularly violating the ceasefire” and preventing food, medicine and different humanitarian assistance from reaching the Palestinians successful Gaza.

“We bash not privation the genocide to restart successful Gaza, we privation the ceasefire to continue, and we privation steps to beryllium taken toward a two-step, imperishable bid solution,” Fidan said.

“We bash judge that the unit connected Israel from the planetary nine should beryllium sustained,” helium added, noting that Israeli attacks person killed astir 250 Palestinians since the ceasefire took effect connected October 10. Al Jazeera’s ain sum has tracked astatine slightest 236 specified deaths.

The Turkish apical diplomat said his state wants to spot a post-war model for Gaza successful which Palestinians guarantee Palestine’s governance and security. He added that his comments represented a “joint view” of the nations that participated successful Monday’s summit.

“Attacks that are trying to provoke Palestinians should extremity arsenic soon arsenic possible,” helium said.

Teetering ceasefire

Monday’s gathering came amid an escalation of Israeli attacks connected Gaza and an ongoing blockade connected aid, including nutrient and medicines.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched a onslaught spree crossed Gaza past week aft uncovering that a assemblage Hamas had transferred to Israel did not lucifer 1 of the 13 captives to beryllium handed implicit arsenic portion of the ceasefire deal. The attacks killed much than 100 people, including 46 children, wrong 24 hours.

Palestinians mourn the decease of loved ones successful Israeli strikes, astatine al-Shifa Hospital successful Gaza City connected October 29, 2025 [Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP]

Although Israel connected Wednesday said it would resume the deal, its attacks proceed to termination Palestinians, including three much connected Monday.

Aid transportation remains inadequate, with fractional of Gaza households reporting that they person seen the aforesaid oregon worsening nutrient entree since the ceasefire, according to a UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) survey released this week. In the north, nary nutrient assistance convoy has entered via a nonstop crossing since mid-September, OCHA said.

Meanwhile, the Gaza Government Media Office said it tracked an mean of 145 aid-bearing trucks entering the Gaza Strip regular betwixt October 10 and October 31 – representing conscionable a 4th of the 600 trucks agreed upon successful the ceasefire deal.

‘Nothing clear’ astir Gaza mandate

Trump’s Gaza woody had projected the instauration of a alleged planetary stabilisation unit (ISF), an planetary assemblage intended to oversee information wrong Gaza. The program says the US would “work with Arab and planetary partners” to “train and supply enactment to vetted Palestinian constabulary forces successful Gaza”, relying connected consultation with Jordan and Egypt.

But “nothing is clear” astir the mandate, Al Jazeera’s Sinem Koseoglu reported from Istanbul, arsenic imaginable participating nations await further details from the UN Security Council arsenic to the ISF’s precise explanation and requirements.

Further complicating matters is which “international partners” Israel would let to beryllium portion of the ISF. Last week, Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said Israel would not judge the beingness of equipped Turkish forces, raising questions astir whose troops could beryllium called upon oregon refused arsenic peacekeepers.

Netanyahu appeared to diverge from Trump connected the meaning of the ISF adjacent arsenic helium agreed to the plan. During a associated quality league with Trump, the Israeli premier curate told reporters that “Israel volition clasp information responsibility, including a information perimeter, for the foreseeable future”.

Miroslav Zafirov, a erstwhile elder governmental advisor for the UN Special Coordinator’s Office for the Middle East Peace Process, told Al Jazeera the ISF indispensable beryllium defined nether “very wide standards nether planetary law” successful bid to beryllium effective.

“There are excessively galore elements of the connection for bid that stay unanswered,” Zafirov said.

Turkiye’s Foreign Minister Fidan said the planetary assemblage “overestimated” Israel’s readiness to clasp the way towards a two-state solution.

“Israel ne'er agreed connected this, and it ne'er had immoderate volition to o.k. this,” helium said. “But the planetary nine has based its sentiment connected this understanding.”