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US President Donald Trump has indicated that "for the most part, agreement exists" on how the subsequent phases of the peace deal in Gaza will work, though he conceded that "certain specifics … will be resolved."

"Hamas is collecting them at present," Trump stated, referring to the captives yet to be freed in the Gaza Strip. "They find themselves in quite harsh situations."

The US president, who has been commended by Hamas and numerous Israelis for his involvement in securing a truce agreement, remarked he thinks the accord will "remain in place" because "the parties are weary of the fighting."

Forthcoming Meeting on Gaza Situation

Concurrently, he plans to bring together world leaders for a conference on the Gaza situation during his travel to the North African nation in the coming week. Among those expected to take part are officials from the European nation, France, the United Kingdom, the Italian Republic, Qatar, the UAE, Jordan, Turkey, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Indonesia.

According to sources, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not be present.

Trump's Itinerary

The president stated that he would confer with a "lot of officials" in the city on the start of the week to talk about the direction of Gaza. Sources indicate that he will also travel to Israel, where he will appear at the Knesset.

Major Updates

• Tens of thousands of individuals headed back to the heavily destroyed northern Gaza on Friday as a ceasefire mediated by the US was implemented. Those still 48 hostages—some 20 of them thought to be living—are to be freed by next Monday.
• Questions remain over leadership in the Gaza Strip as Israel's military gradually pull back and whether the organization will disarm, as called for in Trump's ceasefire plan. PM Netanyahu, who terminated on his own a truce in March, suggested that the nation might restart its operations if they refuses to relinquish its weapons.
• The United Nations was authorized by Israeli authorities to begin providing increased relief into the Gaza Strip beginning Sunday. The relief will involve 170,000 metric tons that have already been positioned in adjacent states such as the Kingdom of Jordan and Egypt as humanitarian officials expected permission from the army to restart their work.
• UN spokesperson the spokesman reported to journalists on Friday that petrol, medicines, and essential items have started flowing through the crossing point. UN officials are urging Israel to allow access through additional crossing points and provide protected transit for aid workers and the population who are coming back to areas in Gaza that were subject to intense shelling up until lately.
• The president of Lebanon the head of state censured the nation on last Saturday for executing raids during the night on civilian facilities that the health authority said killed at least one person. "Yet again, the region has been the focus of a egregious offensive against civilian installations—with no valid reason or pretext," the president remarked.
• The government disclosed a roster of the Palestinian prisoners that it intends to release as under the ceasefire agreement agreed upon with the organization. Out of the 250 Palestinian prisoners, 15 will be released in eastern Jerusalem, one hundred to the Palestinian territory, and the remainder will be expelled. Initially, when the organization's delegates submitted a list of proposed prisoners to be released to mediators in Egypt, they demanded the liberation of high-profile Palestinian leaders such as the activist. However, the Israeli government affirmed it refuses to release him.