Overview
- U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff is meeting in Miami with Qatar’s Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Turkey’s Hakan Fidan and Egypt’s Badr Abdelatty to push stalled implementation of the Gaza deal’s next stage.
- The second phase envisions Hamas disarmament, further Israeli withdrawals, an International Stabilisation Force and a technocratic Gaza administration, but contributors, mandates and sequencing remain unresolved.
- Qatar warned that repeated Israeli violations are endangering the agreement, with monitors citing roughly 738 alleged breaches since Oct. 10 that resulted in hundreds of Palestinian deaths.
- The White House privately rebuked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over a strike that killed a senior Hamas commander, which U.S. officials said may have violated the truce.
- Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he is very confident countries will join the proposed stabilisation force and cited Pakistan as a potential key participant, even as humanitarian access in Gaza remains severely constrained.