U.S. President Donald Trump embarked on a whirlwind trip to the Middle East on Monday to cement the end of the war between Israel and Hamas, and to reaffirm his ambitions to usher in peace between the two.

President Donald Trump claimed Monday that Egypt's president had skipped a meeting with his 2016 rival, Clinton.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed President Donald Trump during a gathering of Israel’s parliament for helping to broker the ceasefire deal.

CAIRO — Three employees of Qatar's Amiri Diwan, its top government body, were killed in a car crash near Egypt’s Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh, Qatar's embassy in Egypt said in a post on X on Sunday.

The meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, could expedite an end to the Gaza war, but regional powers must still resolve the thorny details that have stymied negotiations.

Israel has also released almost 2,000 Palestinian detainees, with busloads greeted by huge crowds in the occupied West Bank.