Overview

• Delegations are convening in Sharm el‑Sheikh as President Donald Trump urges negotiators to move quickly, with envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff in attendance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio pressing for a pause in strikes to enable releases.
• Hamas says it is ready to begin a prisoner exchange and transfer Gaza’s civil administration to independent technocrats but has not agreed to disarm and is conditioning progress on a halt to Israeli operations and pullbacks in Gaza City.
• Israel is dispatching a team led by Ron Dermer, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressing hope for releases within days, even as Israeli strikes continued on Sunday and the military warned it would resume broader operations if talks collapse.
• The U.S. blueprint calls for releasing all hostages within 72 hours in return for Israel freeing 250 prisoners serving life terms plus more than 1,700 Gaza detainees, followed by a phased Israeli withdrawal and a technocratic administration that excludes Hamas; about 47 hostages remain in Gaza, with Israel assessing roughly 25 are dead.
• Mediators from Egypt and Qatar are steering indirect talks toward a comprehensive package to avoid past phased breakdowns, and foreign ministers from eight Muslim countries called the latest steps a real opportunity to secure a sustainable ceasefire and expand humanitarian access.