Special Messenger of the United States and Trump’s son -in -law to join the peace talks in Gaza in Egypt

US special envoy Steve Vikoff and US President Donald Trump Jared Kushner’s son -in -law will join the Gaza peace plan between Israeli and Hamas negotiators in Egypt on Wednesday.

Arrival comes as a second day for indirect negotiations on Tuesday, ended without tangible results, said a senior Palestinian employee familiar with the negotiations, told the BBC.

Trump hit a positive tone as the Israelis celebrated the second anniversary of the attacks led by Hamas on October 7, saying that “we are likely to have peace in the Middle East.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu He did not comment on the state of the conversations, but told the Israelis that they were on “fateful days”.

In the X Netanyahu publication, Israel would continue to act to achieve his war, goals: “The return of all the abducted, the removal of the Hamas regime and the promise that Gaza will no longer pose a threat to Israel.”

Vitcof and Kushner were expected to leave the United States on Tuesday night and arrive in Egypt on Wednesday, a source familiar with the BBC reported.

Qatar Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman al -Thani, considered as a key intermediaryHe will also join the conversations, an employee told Reuters news agency.

Al Thani’s visit was aimed at “passing the Gaza Fire Cease Plan and an agreement to release hostages,” the employee said.

The head of Turkish intelligence is expected to join him.

A senior Palestinian employee familiar with the negotiations told the BBC that an evening round of indirect negotiations on Tuesday began at 19:00 local time (16:00 GMT).

The employee said that the morning session had ended without tangible results against the background of disagreements on the proposed Israeli withdrawal cards and over the guarantees Hamas wants to ensure that Israel does not resume battles after the first phase of the transaction.

He added that the conversations were “difficult and have not yet created a real breakthrough”, but noted that mediators are working hard to narrow the gaps between the two countries.

Trump turned to fears on Tuesday, telling reporters that “we will do our best to make sure everyone is sticking to the deal.”

Early a Palestinian employee stated that the negotiations focused on five key questions: a constant ceasefire; the exchange of hostages still held by Hamas for Palestinian prisoners and detained by Gaza; the withdrawal of the Israeli forces from Gaza; arrangements for the supply of humanitarian aid; and post -war management of the territory.

Chief Negotiating Hamas Halil Al-Haya, whom Israel is directed last month In a series of air strikes in the capital of Qatar, he told the Egyptian country related to the state Al Quhera News TV, the group had “serious and responsible negotiations”.

Hayaya said Hamas is ready to achieve a deal, but needs “real guarantees” from Trump and the international community that the war will be over and will not restart.

Senior Hamas Fauzi Barhum staff said the group’s negotiators are working to eliminate “all obstacles to an agreement that meets the aspirations of our people.”

Trump said the prospects for peace are “something even beyond the Gaza situation”, adding that “we want the hostages to be released immediately.”

In a announcement marking the anniversary of the attacks on October 7, the most domestic day for Jews after the Holocaust, UN Secretary -General Antonio Guteres, called on all countries to agree to Trump’s peace plan, describing it as a “historical opportunity” to bring this tragic conflict.

Public opinion polls now show that about 70% of Israelis want the war to end in exchange for the hostage release.

The Israeli military launched a campaign in Gaza in response to an attack led by Hamas against southern Israel on October 7, 2023, which killed about 1,200 people and 251 others were hostage.

Since then, at least 67,173 have been killed by Israeli military operations in Gaza, including 20 179 children, according to the health ministry in the territory. Its numbers are seen as reliable by the UN and other international bodies.

The ministry said another 460 people were killed by the consequences of malnutrition since the beginning of the war, including 182, as the hunger was confirmed in the city of Gaza in August by the integrated classification of the Food Security Phase (IPC).

The united body said more than half a million people in Gaza face “catastrophic” conditions characterized by “hunger, disaster and death”.

Netanyahu repeatedly denied hunger to take place in Gaza.

The Joint UN Committee said last month that Israel had performed a genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza, in a report, the Israeli Foreign Ministry was categorically rejected as “wrong and false”.