Trump's envoys met Egyptian, Qatari and Turkish mediators in Cairo on Sunday to push the president's Gaza peace plan forward, even as Israel kept striking the enclave. Kushner and Mladenov are due to see Netanyahu on Monday, while several Arab and Muslim-majority states condemned Israel's rejection of the roadmap.
U.S. President Donald Trump's envoys met Egyptian, Qatari and Turkish mediators in Cairo on Sunday, a diplomatic source said, aiming to advance the president's Gaza peace plan even as Israel pressed on with airstrikes in the enclave. Hamas officials attended some of the meetings 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 said.
A senior Israeli official said Kushner and Mladenov are scheduled to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, who on Aug. 9 called Trump's latest roadmap for Gaza peace "unacceptable." The official said Israel was concerned about Washington's demand to end targeted assassinations of Hamas militants as the group rebuilds its forces.
Gaza medics say strikes wounded several people
Israel resumed airstrikes in the past few days after scaling back its attacks in the enclave earlier this month. The Israeli military said its aircraft struck two Islamic Jihad and Hamas militants in Khan Younis and Nuseirat on Sunday, hitting a tent encampment and wounding at least five Palestinians, medics in the enclave said. One of those wounded in the Khan Younis strike later died of their wounds, medics at Nasser Hospital said. A separate strike, which the Israeli military said targeted another militant, hit an apartment in the Nuseirat camp, wounding several people, medics said.
Meanwhile, Hamas leader Khalil Al-Hayya met Egypt's intelligence chief Hassan Rashad in Cairo. Hamas spokesperson Hazem Qassem said Al-Hayya would brief mediators on what he described as Israel's ceasefire violations.
Muslim powers condemn Israeli rejection of plan
Trump announced last month that there had been a breakthrough in his plan to end the war. Hamas said it had agreed to the plan to avoid a resumption of the conflict, but added that implementation would depend on Israel first meeting its own commitments, including withdrawing its forces and halting attacks.
Five Arab countries and Turkey, Pakistan and Indonesia condemned Israel's rejection of the plan in a joint statement on Sunday, saying it threatens Trump's efforts to end the war. A spokesperson for Netanyahu did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Netanyahu's Likud party, which has been struggling in the polls ahead of an Oct. 27 national election, said on X that the Arab countries want to topple Netanyahu so his political rivals will, according to CNBC, "give them everything that they want."
An October ceasefire halted major fighting in a two-year war sparked by Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, but it failed to end Israeli attacks entirely. Israeli fire has killed more than 1,250 Palestinians in Gaza since October 2025, most of them civilians, while four Israeli soldiers were killed by militants in Gaza over the same period, according to Israeli figures.
Source: CNBC
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