Overview
- Special envoy Steve Witkoff is meeting Friday in Miami with Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty to coordinate mediator pressure.
- Discussions center on Phase Two requirements: deploying an international stabilization force, further Israeli withdrawals, Hamas disarmament and the launch of an internationally supervised technocratic administration overseen by a Trump-chaired Board of Peace.
- Mediators say both parties are dragging their feet, while Israel has resisted certain ISF contributors such as Turkey and continues to condition progress on the return of the final hostage’s remains, identified as Ran Gvili.
- Tensions over compliance sharpened after Israel killed a senior Hamas commander, prompting a private White House rebuke over a possible truce breach, as Qatar’s prime minister publicly warned that repeated strikes threaten the agreement.
- Humanitarian conditions in Gaza are worsening, with aid access restricted—about 39% of allocated trucks reaching destinations—and winter storms reported to have caused deaths among displaced families in inadequate shelters.