Overview

• President Trump held two meetings with Prime Minister Netanyahu in 24 hours to intensify US pressure for a Gaza ceasefire.
• US envoy Steve Witkoff says he expects a 60-day truce by week’s end that would free ten living hostages and return nine deceased captives.
• Indirect negotiations in Doha have produced no breakthrough as Israel insists on dismantling Hamas’s military capabilities and retaining security control in Gaza.
• Hamas demands full Israeli troop withdrawal and UN-supervised humanitarian aid corridors, red lines that remain unresolved.
• Domestic pressure in Israel is rising, with President Isaac Herzog and opposition figures calling to end the war and secure the release of all hostages.