Leaders-Mena magazine provided a live coverage for Monday’s Gaza pace summit in Egypt’s Sharm El-Sheikh.
21:45 French President Emmanuel Macron announced plans to deploy a UN peacekeeping force in Gaza and assist in training Palestinian security forces. “This is a historic day, but challenges remain,” he told reporters before departing.
Macron praised Trump’s role in the negotiations, stating, “Only Trump could have stopped Netanyahu.” He emphasized the urgency of humanitarian aid, calling for 1,000 daily aid trucks to Gaza, double the current amount.
21:10 The United Nations said an additional $11 million from an emergency fund will be allocated to support the scaling up of humanitarian aid in Gaza ahead of the winter months.
21:00 US President Trump boarded Air Force One to depart Sharm El-Sheikh, briefly waving to onlookers before heading to the aircraft without addressing reporters.
20:45 Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that US President Donald Trump is the “most wonderful candidate” for the Nobel Peace Prize.
20:20 Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi says he will present the Order of the Nile, the country’s highest state award, to US President Donald Trump
20:15 US President Donald Trump expressed his gratitude to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for his efforts to achieve a peace deal in Gaza.
20:10 President Trump declares at the Sharm El-Sheikh summit that this “is the day people across the region and globe have worked, hoped and prayed for,” announcing “at long last, we have peace in the Middle East.” He described the moment as “beautiful” with rebuilding set to begin, expressing “tremendous gratitude to Arab and Muslim nations” for enabling this “incredible breakthrough.”
20:00 Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi says that his country will host a Gaza reconstruction summit, adding that the “ending of the war in Gaza should be the end of all wars in the region,” and that a two-state solution is “the only way to fulfil the aspirations of both Palestinian and Israeli people to end the conflict”.
19:50 Israel says the Red Cross has now received four coffins of deceased hostages from Hamas.
19:30 US President Donald Trump signed the Gaza peace plan first, remarking, “This took 3,000 years—can you believe it? And it’s going to hold up.” Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan followed. Trump called it “an incredible day for the world,” claiming the deal would prevent a potential Third World War in the Middle East.
19:10 After greeting leaders on stage in Sharm El-Sheikh, Donald Trump joined them for a group photo marking what the observers called “an extraordinary day” and the start of a difficult peace process.
19:00 US President Donald Trump hails Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, saying that he “has done a fantastic job to stop the war in Gaza.”
18:30 US President Trump stated that the second phase of peace negotiations between Hamas and Israel is already in progress.
18:15 Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi met on Monday with the presidents of France and Turkey, along with Qatar’s emir and other leaders, to coordinate efforts for implementing the Gaza ceasefire and advancing reconstruction, the Egyptian presidency said in a statement.
18:00 Israeli Hostages and Missing Families Forum has called for “the immediate suspension of all agreement implementation” until every deceased hostage is returned from Gaza, after Hamas said only four bodies would be returned today.
17:46 US President Donald Trump has been joined by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi for the short ride to the conference hall in Sharm El-Sheikh.
17:45 A last-minute plan for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to attend the Sharm El-Sheikh summit was aborted after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to boycott the event, according to reports.
17:25 US President Donald Trump’s Air Force One has arrived in Sharm El-Sheikh to co-host a historic Gaza peace summit with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi.
17:15 Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi welcomed a host of world leaders, including those from Turkey, Qatar, Jordan, and Spain to the Red Sea resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh for the historic Gaza peace summit.
17:00 German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has urged US President Donald Trump to apply US influence to end the Ukraine war, stating after arriving in Sharm El-Sheikh that the Gaza summit proves peace is achievable through unified international action.
16:40 Hamas’ military wing, Al-Qassam Brigades, said the group would hand over the bodies of four Israeli hostages today as part of the prisoner exchange.
16:35 Running behind schedule, President Trump has left Israel on board Air Force One after a lengthy speech in the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, heading to the Egyptian resort city of Sharm El-Sheikh for a summit, attended by 20 world leaders, where a signing ceremony is expected.
16:25 Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni arrives at the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh to take part in the summit to mark the Gaza ceasefire.
16:20 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not attend Monday’s summit on ending the Gaza war in Egypt, his office said, after Cairo had earlier announced he would take part.
16:10 Of the 250 Palestinian prisoners freed by Israel, 154 were deported to Egypt and will not return to their homes in Gaza or the West Bank, according to a joint statement from the Palestinian Prisoners’ Authority and the non-governmental Prisoners’ Club
16:00 US President Donald Trump’s motorcade has arrived at Ben Gurion Airport where Air Force One is waiting to take him to Sharm El-Sheikh.
15:30 Tearful reunions unfolded in the West Bank and Gaza as Palestinian prisoners freed by Israel embraced their families, a key step in a deal aimed at ending two years of conflict.
14:00 Saudi Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan has arrived to Sharm El-Sheikh to attend the Gaza peace summit.
13:30 Donald Trump has been given a huge standing ovation by those in attendance as he entered the Israeli parliament.
13:00 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abaas arrives in Sharm El-Sheikh.
12:30 President Trump signed the guest book at the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, ahead of a planned address to the assembled lawmakers
12:15 Egyptian presidency: Following a phone call with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to attend the Gaza peace summit in Sharm El-Sheikh, alongside Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
12:00 French President Emmanuel Macron has arrived in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, to participate in the Gaza peace summit.
11:40 Buses carrying freed Palestinian prisoners have departed from Ofer Prison in the West Bank.
11:30 Palestinian group Hamas has released all 20 living Israeli captives to Red Cross representatives in Gaza in two groups, with the second group of 13 captives freed in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Israel’s public broadcaster reported.
11:00 US President Donald Trump has arrived in Israel to address parliament, before he is scheduled to travel to Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh for the summit.
10:30 The first seven Israelis released on Monday were returning from the Gaza Strip to Israel, escorted by Israeli army and Shin Bet officers, according to Israeli sources.
10:00 Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas will attend the summit, French President Emmanuel Macron said.
Also attending:
- Jordan’s King Abdullah II
- Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
- Turkish President: Recep Tayyip Erdogan
- Indonesia’s President: Prabowo Subianto
- French President: Emmanuel Macron
- Azerbaijan’s President: Ilham Aliyev
- Spanish prime minister: Pedro Sanchez
- Norway’s prime minister: Jonas Gahr Store
- Kuwait’s prime minister: Ahmad Al Abdullah Al Sabah
- Iraq’s prime minister: Mohammed Shia al-Sudani
- Pakistan’s prime minister: Shehbaz Sharif
- UK’s prime minister: Keir Starmer
- UN secretary-general: António Guterres
- European council president: Antonio Costa
- Arab League secretary-general: Ahmed Aboul Gheit
- Canada’s prime minister: Mark Carney
- Greek prime minister: Kyriakos Mitsotakis
- Armenian prime minister: Nikol Pashinyan
- German Chancellor: Friedrich Merz
- Italian prime minister: Giorgia Meloni
- Hungary’s prime minister: Viktor Orban
09:45 Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and US President Donald Trump will co-chair a Gaza peace summit in Sharm El-Sheikh, with a number of world leaders are attending.
09:30 Pivotal indirect negotiations begin in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on 5-6 October with Israeli and Hamas delegations meeting separately, mediated by Qatar, Egypt, and US officials. However, after multiple days of intense talks, mediators announce that both Israel and Hamas have signed off on the first phase of the agreement, focusing on a ceasefire and hostage exchange
09:00 On 29 September, 2025, US President Donald Trump unveiled a new, comprehensive 20-point peace plan to end the two-year conflict in Gaza, setting the framework for negotiations.
