Overview
- Envoy Steve Witkoff will host Qatar’s Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Turkey’s Hakan Fidan and Egypt’s Badr Abdelatty in Miami on Friday to review the second stage of the Gaza deal.
- U.S. and regional mediators say both Israel and Hamas are slow-walking implementation and will push for concrete steps to meet their commitments.
- Phase Two calls for Hamas to give up governing authority and begin disarmament, the deployment of an International Stabilization Force, further Israeli withdrawals and an internationally supervised technocratic administration.
- U.S. officials privately rebuked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after an Israeli strike killed a senior Hamas commander, warning the action could violate the ceasefire.
- Humanitarian strain is intensifying in Gaza, with winter storms, blocked essential supplies and only 39% of allocated aid trucks reaching destinations, adding urgency to advance the plan.