Five things to know about the Gaza ceasefire breakthrough in five minutes ...Middle East

Donald Trump has sent his son-in-law and a senior envoy to Egypt to start ceasefire negotiations with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the White House has said.

Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff will be tasked with agreeing the technical details of a hostage release and a lasting ceasefire deal two years on from the October 7 attack.

The negotiations come after Hamas said on Friday that it was ready to free the remaining hostages under Trump’s plan to end the war.

On Monday Egypt will play host to delegations from Israel and Hamas who will discuss the proposed exchange of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners.

Trump has claimed that he can finally bring an end to the war. Here are four things to know ahead of the negotiations:

What is Trump’s plan

The White House earlier this week released a 20-point document setting out a plan to end the war.

Proposals included calling for an immediate ceasefire, an exchange of hostages held by Hamas for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, delivery of food aid, a staged Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, disarmament of Hamas and a transitional government led by an international body.

Under Trump’s plan, all 48 remaining hostages would be released by Hamas “within 72 hours of Israel publicly accepting this agreement”.

The plan added that “Gaza will be governed under the temporary transitional governance of a technocratic, apolitical Palestinian committee” which would be supervised by an international body led by Trump.

At a later date, the Palestinian Authority would have a role in the governance of Gaza, but only once it had reformed itself.

The US say it would work with Arab partners to develop a security force.

But the plan has drawn criticism for being vague, leaving much open for interpretation and not tying Netanyahu firmly enough to commitments about the future of Gaza.

What have Hamas agreed to

Hamas said on Friday that it would accept key aspects of Trump’s plan, including ending the war, releasing Israeli hostages and Palestinian captives, and Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza.

The group did not say, however, whether it would be willing to disarm. For Israel, this will be a key point of negotiation.

A senior Hamas official told Al Jazeera that the group would not disarm before Israel had ended its occupation of the territory.

The group is also demanding an immediate withdrawal of Israeli troops, rather than a staged withdrawal.

After Hamas responded to the deal, Trump posted on social media: “After negotiations, Israel has agreed to the initial withdrawal line, which we have shown to, and shared with, Hamas”.

The US president said that once Hamas agree to it, a ceasefire would come into effect, and exchanges of hostages and prisoners would begin. “We will create the conditions for the next phase of withdrawal”, he added.

Israel’s response

Despite Trump’s calls to Israel to pause their bombardment of Gaza whilst negotiations begin, dozens more Palestinians were reportedly killed yesterday.

Israel had said that it was military operations would be reduced to “the minimum”, and Trump later thanked Israel on Truth Social for having “temporarily stopped the bombing”.

But according to the office Palestinian news agency Wafa, at least 17 were killed in Gaza city on Saturday evening.

Dozens more were killed whilst gathering near a bakery, and at least two children were killed in a separate Israeli strike on a house in Gaza City and a tent housing displaced people in al-Mawasi. Israel had previously designated the latter a “safe zone”.

Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz claimed today that the IDF’s military offensive in Gaza city “created the basis” for Trump’s plan.

Katz further warned that the Israeli military would “once again increase the intensity of the fire until Hamas is defeated” if the group refused to release the hostages.

How likely is it to work ?

There have been previous attempts to negotiate a ceasefire, but they have so far failed to last.

In November 2023, there was a truce that lasted just one week during which 105 hostages were released from Gaza in exchange for scores of Palestinian prisoners.

A second ceasefire was struck in January 2025. Hamas freed 33 hostages and Israel released hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. But the ceasefire was shattered when Israel resumed its offensive on March 18.

Last month, talks were again derailed by Israel when they launched an airstrike on Hamas negotiators in Qatar. The strike killed six people who it did not have as as targets.

Trump’s new peace proposal has been welcomed by global leaders, but we are yet to see whether the negotiations will reach a conclusion or if they will have a lasting impact.

Critics of Netanyahu have pointed out that he has previously disrupted two previous ceasefire deals by only agreeing to certain points and then resuming his military assault on Gaza.

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