U.S. President Donald Trump will be traveling to Israel to deliver a speech to the Knesset on Oct. 13, Monday morning, and then to Cairo to participate in a summit on Gaza, according to news reports late yesterday.
Axios reported that the Cairo summit could rally additional international support for Trump’s Gaza peace plan, with difficult agreements still to be finalized on postwar governance, security and reconstruction. According to the Axios sources, the summit is being organized by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who has already reached out to several European and Arab leaders with invitations. Leaders or foreign ministers from Germany, France, the U.K., Italy, Qatar, the U.A.E., Jordan, Türkiye, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Indonesia are expected to participate, the sources said. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, however, is not expected to attend at the moment, according to a U.S. official.
Trump is expected to arrive in Israel the morning of Monday, Oct. 13 local time, give a speech before the Knesset, and meet hostage families. On Monday afternoon, Trump will travel to Egypt to meet el-Sisi and participate in a signing ceremony along with the other guarantors of the Gaza peace deal: Egypt, Qatar and Türkiye. The leaders summit will likely take place the next morning, Oct. 14, but could be moved to Oct. 13, the sources said. It will be at Sharm el-Sheikh, where negotiations for the deal took place.
