According to the White House official, the Trump administration’s Trump administration visited the Gaza district on Wednesday. .
Steven Witkoff, the most senior American official in the United States, who visited Gaza for many years, met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel on Wednesday.
Israel’s management, who talked about anonymous conditions to discuss sensitive topics, said in Gaza, who visited Netzarim corridor.
Senior US officials have been far from Gaza for many years due to security issues and official US non -contact policies with Hamas.
Another Israeli official, who has no authority to give public opinion, said Witkoff arrived in Israel to meet Netanyahu and his top aides on Wednesday. He attended Israel’s Secretary of Defense Israel Katz.
Before the Americans went to Israel, Tuesday, on Tuesday, discussed a wider Middle East peace plan in Saudi Arabia, Israeli officials said. A White House official said Witkoff met Hussein Al-sheikh, secretary-general of the Palestinian Liberation Organization in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Two Palestinian officials who asked for anonymity for the closed door meeting said that Prince Paisal Bin Pahan, the foreign minister of Saudi Arabia, also attended the meeting.
The Trump administration has been experiencing a visit to the area when Trump brokes a wider Middle East peace agreement, including the normalization of diplomatic relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia, which Trump pursued during his first term. But the agreement depends on the plan of the future of Gaza.
Witkoff I said in an interview with Fox News last week He planned to visit GAZA’s Netzarim corridor and Philadelphi Corridor on the south and Egyptian border. However, the timing was unclear because the schedule was generally maintained to ensure security.
The US Embassy in Jerusalem refused to mention on Wednesday.
In the early 15 months of war, the Israeli army ordered mass evacuation in the northern part of the Gaza, forcing hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to run south. For several months, Israeli soldiers patrolled the netzarim corridor to prevent Palestinians from heading north.
However, under the 42 -day ceasefire agreement this month, the Israeli army withdrew Gazans to the north on two major roads along the Netzarim corridor on Monday. On Tuesday, more than 376,000 people arrived in the northern Gaza. Latest data At the UN Office for Humanitarian work coordination.
According to those who are familiar with this plan, the US company’s Safe Reaach Solutions is expected to supervise the management of the corridor, while the other two companies (Americans and one Egyptian) will handle the tests of those heading north.
The Philadelfi corridor is about 8 miles border strips between Egypt and Gaza, as known in Israel. The Israeli army is currently in control of the region, but is expected to withdraw from the second stage of the ceasefire. For more information, we are still negotiating. Netanyahu called the corridor the “life line” for Hamas’s smuggling operation.
Witkoff played an important role in brokering the initial ceasefire transactions between Israel and Hamas, and teamed up with officials from the Biden administration, Qatar and Egypt.
His visit is the day before, aiming to operate major UN institutions that help Palestinian refugees. This law should be banned by the UNRWA institution to stop activities in Eastern Jerusalem and to contact the government of the Israeli government. The UNRWA said the law would prevent the operation of Israeli Occupied Westbank and Gaza.
Philippe Lazzarini, chairman of the agency, said on Tuesday that the UN’s ambassadors would “undermine the ceasefire.”
“This will interfere with the recovery of the Gaza and the political transition,” he said.
Dorothy Shaea, the UN representative of the Trump administration, dismissed the claims of this institution on Tuesday, and the United States supported “Israel’s sovereign decision” to close the UNRWA’s office to support “Israel’s sovereignty decision.” I said it was.
Israel and UNRWA have been winning for a long time. Last year, Israel argued that UNRWA employees participated in the Hamas -led attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023. According to the UN survey, nine employees may have been involved in this attack.
Witkoff’s visit is also ahead of the third hostage between Israel and Hamas, which is expected on Thursday. Omer Dostri, a spokesman for the prime minister, said that Israeli soldiers, AGAM BERGER and two Israeli civilians Arbel Yehud and Gadi Moses will be released on Thursday.
David Mencer, a government spokesman, said three hostages will be solved on Saturday. Under the ceasefire agreement, 33 Israelites will be released in return in return with hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. According to Israeli officials, seven prisoners have already returned home, and eight of the rest of the hostages are no longer alive.
Netanyahu was invited to meet Trump at the White House on February 4th.
On Tuesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with Egypt and Qatar Foreign Ministers to discuss continuous cooperation in Gaza. This will include “Hamas after a dispute that cannot rule or threaten Israel.” State Department read Call with Rubio’s Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty. Although Hamas has weakened, the armed group survived the war in Gaza and remains the most powerful Palestinian sugar in the territory.
Trump also urged Egypt and Jordan to take Palestinians from Gaza to “clean” the territory. He told reporters last weekend. It was rejected by the two countries and on Wednesday, Al-Sheikh, the secretary general of the Palestinian Liberation Aircraft, talked with Abdelatty to reaffirm Egypt’s dismissal of Trump’s proposal.
Al-Sheikh said, “We discussed how to integrate ceasefire and provide humanitarian aid, and emphasized the support of the Palestinians remaining in their land and their absolute rejection of their displacement. Said on social media.
Aaron Boxerman and Patrick Kingley Contribution.
