Summary
Here’s a wrap-up of the day’s key events:
A spokesperson for Israeli prime minster Benajmin Netanyahu said that an Israeli delegation arrived in Qatar on Sunday for further ceasefire talks between Hamas and Israel. Reuters reports that indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas on the next stage of the ceasefire are set to begin this coming week.
Israeli president Isaac Herzog said that Donald Trump will meet with Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and potentially Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, Reuters reports. Speaking on Sunday to Fox News’s Maria Bartiromo in response to a question about Trump’s proposal to take over Gaza, Herzog said: “President Trump is due to meet with major, major Arab leaders, first and foremost the king of Jordan and the president of Egypt and I think also the crown prince of Saudi Arabia as well.”
Saudi Arabia’s foreign ministry has rejected Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s remarks about displacing Palestinians from their land, Reuters reports. Israeli officials have suggested the establishment of a Palestinian state on Saudi territory.
A pregnant 23-year-old Palestinian was killed by Israeli security forces on Sunday in the Nur Shams refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry has said. Sundus Shalabi, who was eight months pregnant, was killed by Israeli gunfire, the ministry said in a statement, adding that the foetus also did not survive and that Shalabi’s husband was critically injured.
The Israeli military has completed the withdrawal from the Netzarim Corridor, that bisects the northern and southern halves of the Gaza Strip, to the buffer zone. Under the terms of the ceasefire agreement with Hamas, the Israeli military is supposed to withdraw completely from the corridor, which stretches to the Mediterranean Sea, and allow free movement back and forth between the south and the north of the territory.
Israeli spokesperson: Israeli delegation arrives in Qatar for further ceasefire talks
A spokesperson for Israeli prime minster Benajmin Netanyahu said that an Israeli delegation arrived in Qatar on Sunday for further ceasefire talks between Hamas and Israel.
Reuters reports that indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas on the next stage of the ceasefire are set to begin this coming week.
However, a source in Netanyahu’s office said the Israeli delegation at this point will only discuss technical issues, rather than the bigger matters which are supposed to be hammered out, including the administration of post-war Gaza, Reuters reports.
