Greece, Cyprus Invited to Gaza Summit in Egypt

reece and Cyprus are among the countries invited by US President Donald Trump to a summit for Gaza, acceptable to take spot astatine the Egyptian edifice of Sharm El Sheikh.

Athens and Nicosia are expected to beryllium represented by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Nikos Christodoulides, respectively.

The summit, deemed arsenic imperative for achieving an extremity to the war that has engulfed the Palestinian enclave aft the Hamas militant group, which ran the Gaza with an “iron first” since 2005, invaded southern Israel connected Oct. 7, 2023. The summit will beryllium co-chaired by Trump and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the host.

The Egyptian president announced the subordinate countries connected Saturday evening, when referring to the “summit of peace”.

Washington has importantly expanded the database of invitees, adding Spain, Japan, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Hungary, India, El Salvador, Cyprus, Greece, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Canada. According to 1 source, Iran was besides invited, however, Israel will not participate, according to Israeli writer Barak Ravid, who writes for Axios.

On its part, Hamas announced that it would not enactment successful the authoritative signing of the agreement.

“As for the authoritative signing, we will not beryllium present,” elder Hamas authoritative Hosam Badran said successful an interrogation with afp, adding that helium would beryllium represented by “mediators,” citing Qatar and Egypt.

By Monday morning, based connected a brokered statement betwixt Israel and Hamas, unrecorded hostages and the bodies of hostages who died arsenic captives successful the hands of the Islamist group, a total of 48, will beryllium returned to Israel.

In exchange, Israel is expected to merchandise 250 Palestinian inmates, including individuals convicted of deadly terrorist attacks, arsenic well arsenic 1,700 different Palestinians captured by the Israeli subject successful the Gaza Strip aft the outbreak of war successful October 2023.

Source: tovima.com