CAIRO: President Donald Trump’s envoys met with Egyptian, Qatari and Turkish mediators in Cairo on Sunday, a diplomatic source said, in a bid to advance the White House’s Gaza peace plan, even as Israel pressed on with airstrikes in the enclave.
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Hamas officials were present at some of the meetings between mediators and with Trump’s envoy and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and Nickolay Mladenov, Trump’s board of peace envoy for Gaza, the diplomat said. An Israeli official said that Kushner and Mladenov were scheduled to meet Monday with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, who on Aug 9 said Trump’s roadmap for Gaza peace was “unacceptable”.
The official said that Israel was concerned about Washington’s demand to end targeted assassinations of Hamas militants in Gaza as the group rebuilds its forces. After scaling back its attacks in the enclave earlier this month, Israel’s airstrikes have resumed in the past few days. The Israeli military said on Sunday that its aircraft targeted a militant in southern Gaza. At least five Palestinians were injured in the strike, medics said. A separate airstrike hit an apartment in the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza, wounding several people, medics said.
