{"id":15023,"date":"2025-10-08T09:55:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T09:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infundpros.com\/?p=15023"},"modified":"2025-10-08T09:55:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T09:55:29","slug":"steve-witkoff-and-jared-kushner-set-to-join-israel-hamas-talks-in-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infundpros.com\/?p=15023","title":{"rendered":"Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner set to join Israel-Hamas talks in Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description o3-type-body-base\"><span>Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=2bb3275c-6844-4505-9fc2-2942c2203777\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>Senior negotiators from the US, Qatar and Turkey were set to join talks to end the war in Gaza as mediators increased pressure on Israel and Hamas to resolve differences over Donald Trump\u2019s plan for a ceasefire and the release of hostages.<\/p>\n<p>Qatar, one of the lead mediators, said the talks had reached a \u201ccritical stage\u201d as it announced Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, the Gulf state\u2019s prime minister, would join the negotiations on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>US envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, the US president\u2019s son-in-law who has been involved in drafting the plan, were also due to attend the talks in Sharm el-Sheikh, according to Egypt\u2019s foreign minister and state-linked media.<\/p>\n<p>An Israeli official said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dispatched Ron Dermer, one of his closest aides and his top negotiator, to Egypt. Turkey, which like Qatar hosts Hamas\u2019s political officials, was sending its intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin, according to state media.<\/p>\n<p>Despite both Israel and Hamas saying they broadly supported Trump\u2019s 20-point plan, there are key points of contention between the warring parties.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"n-content-image n-content-image--full\" data-component=\"image-set\"><picture><source media=\"(min-width: 700px)\"  width=\"2290\" height=\"1527\"><\/source><source media=\"(max-width: 490px)\"  width=\"1528\" height=\"1527\"><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"n-content-picture__caption o3-editorial-typography-caption\"><span>Qatar\u2019s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani is to join the negotiations on Wednesday<\/span><span> <!-- -->\u00a9 Karim Jaafar\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This includes Hamas\u2019s concerns over the demand that it be disarmed, the framework for Israel\u2019s gradual withdrawal from the strip and the role of an international stabilisation force that is supposed to be deployed in the enclave, said a diplomat briefed on the talks.<\/p>\n<p>The diplomat said there had been progress, adding that the aim of the discussions was \u201cto iron out the remaining details and establish a mechanism of implementation for all parties to agree on\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But the diplomat added that Arab states were concerned that Netanyahu had amended parts of Trump\u2019s plan, which was first presented to Arab and Muslim leaders on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly last month.<\/p>\n<p>This included details of the timeline and locations of the Israeli troop redeployment, and diluting references to the Palestinian Authority, which administers limited parts of the occupied West Bank, the diplomat said. <\/p>\n<p>Arab states wanted the western-backed PA to have a greater involvement in the transitional arrangements for Gaza, believing it to be key to the transition\u2019s legitimacy, while Netanyahu has repeatedly rejected any role for the authority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Arab countries point is the way the deal was edited by Netanyahu, Hamas will never accept it,\u201d the diplomat said. \u201cWe are back to discussing details to bring it slightly back to something more realistically acceptable for both sides.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hamas has said it is willing to release the remaining 48 hostages \u2014 20 of whom are believed to be alive \u2014 and that it accepts that it will give up control of Gaza, which it has ruled since 2007. Under the US plan, the strip would be governed by a committee of Palestinian technocrats, overseen by an international supervisory body led by Trump. <\/p>\n<p>But Hamas has made little reference to others points in the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Khalil al-Hayya, Hamas\u2019s top negotiator, reflected the group\u2019s caution around the deal by referencing Israel\u2019s decision to break a US-brokered ceasefire and hostage exchange deal in March.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were negotiating but Israel returned to war\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009the Israeli occupation throughout history did not comply with its promises,\u201d Hayya, who was the target of an Israeli missile strike on Hamas\u2019s office in Doha, told Egypt\u2019s Al-Qahera television. \u201cTherefore, we need real guarantees from the international community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A western diplomat said Hamas was \u201cnot entirely convinced that this deal is the best thing\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey will need actual guarantees since they\u2019ve already been burnt once or twice. The Arabs have to step up\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009and get the US to provide those guarantees,\u201d a western diplomat said.<\/p>\n<p>Israel wants to keep the focus of the talks on the first phase of Trump\u2019s plan, which centres around the hostage release, and not the longer-term provisions, said a person familiar with the Israeli government\u2019s thinking. <\/p>\n<p>In exchange for Hamas freeing the hostages, Israel would release 250 Palestinian prisoners serving life sentences, as well as 1,700 Gazans detained after the militant group\u2019s October 7 2023 attack that triggered the war.<\/p>\n<p>The potential release of high-profile Palestinian figures that Israel has convicted of acts of terrorism, such as Marwan Barghouti, is expected to be hotly contested by the Israeli negotiating team and face a backlash within Netanyahu\u2019s far-right coalition.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas has pushed for the release of Barghouti, a member of its rival Fatah faction, and considered the most popular Palestinian leader despite having spent the past two decades in an Israeli prison.<\/p>\n<p>Hamas said it handed over a list of prisoners it wanted released in exchange for hostages, but did not name them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/2bb3275c-6844-4505-9fc2-2942c2203777\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. 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