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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sissi told a acme of satellite leaders connected Monday (October 13, 2025) that U.S. President Donald Trump's connection represents the “last chance” for bid successful the portion and reiterated his telephone for a two-state solution, saying Palestinians person the close to an autarkic state.
The acme successful Egypt was aimed astatine supporting the ceasefire reached successful Gaza, ending the Israel-Hamas warfare and processing a semipermanent imaginativeness to rebuild the devastated Palestinian territory.
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Mr. Trump's program holds retired the anticipation of a Palestinian state, but lone aft a lengthy modulation play successful Gaza and a betterment process by the internationally recognised Palestinian Authority.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opposes Palestinian independence.
In his speech, El-Sissi besides awarded Mr. Trump the Order of the Nile, the country's highest civilian honour.
Israel and Hamas came nether unit from the United States, Arab countries and Turkiye to hold connected the ceasefire's archetypal signifier negotiated successful Qatar done mediators. The truce began connected Friday.
But large questions stay implicit what happens next, raising the hazard of a descent backmost into war. The gathering reflects the planetary volition to travel done connected the deal.
More than 20 satellite leaders attended the summit, including King Abdullah of Jordan, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, the French President and the British Prime Minister. Minister of State for External Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh attended the acme representing India’s PM Narendra Modi.
Israel and Hamas person nary nonstop contacts and were not expected to attend. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu volition not question to the gathering due to the fact that of a Jewish holiday, his bureau said. Mr. Trump headed to Egypt aft a halt successful Israel.
World leaders lined up to person their photos taken with Mr. Trump up of the meeting. Mr. Trump smiled and gave a thumbs-up to photographers.
Israel has rejected immoderate relation successful Gaza for the internationally backed Palestinian Authority, whose leader, Mahmoud Abbas, arrived successful the Egyptian Red Sea edifice municipality of Sharm el-Sheikh connected Monday earlier the gathering.
The acme unfolded soon aft Hamas released 20 remaining surviving Israeli hostages and Israel started to escaped hundreds of Palestinians from its prisons, important steps nether the ceasefire.
A caller leafage
El-Sissi's bureau said the acme aimed to “end the war” successful Gaza and “usher successful a caller leafage of bid and determination stability” successful enactment with Mr. Trump's vision.
Egyptian Air Force jets escorted Trump's Air Force One for a rotation supra the edifice earlier helium landed and was received by el-Sissi astatine the airport.
In Israel, Mr. Trump urged the country's lawmakers to enactment toward peace. To the Palestinians, helium said it was clip to ore connected building.
Ahead of the meeting, Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty said it was captious that Israel and Hamas afloat instrumentality the archetypal signifier of the ceasefire woody truthful that the parties, with planetary backing, tin statesman negotiations connected the 2nd phase.
Mr. Abdelatty said the occurrence of Mr. Trump's imaginativeness for Mideast bid volition beryllium connected his continued committedness to the process, including applying unit connected the parties and deploying subject forces arsenic portion of an planetary contingent expected to transportation retired peacekeeping duties successful the adjacent phase.
“We request American engagement, adjacent deployment connected the ground, to place the mission, task and mandate of this force,” Mr. Abdelatty told The Associated Press.
Directly tackling the remaining issues successful extent is improbable astatine the gathering, which is expected to past astir 2 hours. Mr. El-Sissi and Mr. Trump are expected to contented a associated connection aft it ends.
Under the archetypal phase, Israeli troops pulled backmost from immoderate parts of Gaza, allowing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians successful Gaza to instrumentality location from areas they were forced to evacuate. Aid groups are preparing to bring successful ample quantities of assistance kept retired of the territory for months.
Critical challenges up
The adjacent signifier of the woody volition person to tackle disarming Hamas, creating a post-war authorities for Gaza and handling the grade of Israel's withdrawal from the territory.
Mr. Trump's program besides stipulates that determination and planetary partners volition enactment to make the halfway of a caller Palestinian information force.
Mr. Abdelatty said the planetary unit needs a U.N. Security Council solution to endorse its deployment.
He said Hamas volition person nary relation successful the transitional play successful Gaza. A 15-member committee of Palestinian technocrats, with nary affiliation to immoderate Palestinian factions and vetted by Israel, volition govern time to time affairs successful Gaza.
The committee would person enactment and supervision from a “Board of Peace” projected by Mr. Trump to oversee the implementation of the phases of his plan, Mr. Abdelatty said.
“We are counting connected Trump to support the implementation of this program for each its phases,” helium told AP.
Another large contented is raising funds for rebuilding Gaza. The World Bank, and Egypt's postwar plan, estimation reconstruction and betterment needs successful Gaza astatine $53 billion. Egypt plans to big an aboriginal betterment and reconstruction league for Gaza successful November.
Roles for different countries
Turkiye, which hosted Hamas governmental leaders for years, played a cardinal relation successful bringing astir the ceasefire agreement.
Jordan, alongside Egypt, volition bid the caller Palestinian information force.
Germany, 1 of Israel's strongest planetary backers and apical suppliers of subject equipment, plans to beryllium represented by Chancellor Friedrich Merz. He has expressed interest implicit Israel's behaviour of the warfare and its program for a subject takeover of Gaza.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who besides is attending, has said helium volition pledge 20 cardinal British pounds ($USD 27 million) to assistance supply h2o and sanitation for Gaza and that Britain volition big a three-day league connected Gaza's reconstruction and recovery.
Speaking successful Egypt, Mr. Starmer said Britain was acceptable to “play its afloat part” successful ensuring that the existent ceasefire results successful a lasting peace.
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, European Union President António Costa and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni besides are attending.
Iran, a main backer of Hamas, is not attending. The Islamic Republic finds itself astatine 1 of its weakest moments since its 1979 revolution. Iranian officials person portrayed the ceasefire woody arsenic a triumph for Hamas.
The deal, however, has underlined Iran's waning power successful the portion and revived concerns implicit imaginable renewed struggle with Israel arsenic Iran struggles to retrieve from the 12-day warfare betwixt the 2 countries successful June.
The venue
Sharm el-Sheikh, astatine the extremity of the Sinai Peninsula, has been big to galore bid negotiations successful the past decades.
The municipality was concisely occupied by Israel for a twelvemonth successful 1956. After Israel withdrew, a United Nations peacekeeping unit was stationed determination until 1967, erstwhile Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser ordered the peacekeepers to leave, a determination that precipitated the Six-Day War that year.
Sharm el-Sheikh and the remainder of the peninsula were returned to Egypt successful 1982, pursuing a 1979 bid pact with Israel.
Though it is present known much for luxury formation resorts, scuba-diving sites and godforsaken tours, Sharm el-Sheikh has besides hosted galore bid summits and rounds of negotiations betwixt Israel and the Palestinians arsenic good arsenic different planetary conferences.
Monday's gathering is the archetypal bid acme nether el-Sissi.
