US particular envoy Steve Witkoff to lead a delegation into Cairo to maintain excessive-stakes talks with Israeli and Hamas negotiators to finish two-yr-lengthy warfare in Gaza, focusing first on “the immediate release of all hostages,” in accordance to media reviews. “Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner will travel to Egypt later today to finalize the technical details of the hostage release and discuss the lasting peace deal,” a White House official instructed Axios on Saturday. The summit marks the opening section of President Donald Trump’s 21-level Gaza peace plan, which has obtained tentative help from either side. This comes after Trump issued an ultimatum to Hamas on Friday, demanding settlement to the peace deal by Sunday, 6 pm (Washington DC time), warning that “all hell, like no one has ever seen before,” would ensue if the deadline was not met. Responding to the ultimatum, Hamas introduced on Friday that it had agreed to release all Israeli hostages, each alive and deceased, below the phrases of Trump’s Gaza proposal. The terror group additionally expressed readiness to instantly enter mediated talks to finalise the small print. In its assertion, Hamas stated it agreed “to release all Israeli prisoners, both living and dead, according to the exchange formula contained in President Trump’s proposal” — offered the right situations for the exchanges are met.Steve Witkoff, the US envoy to the Middle East, has already spearheaded negotiations that led to the release of all dwelling US hostages. Kushner, married to Ivanka Trump, served as the highest Middle East envoy throughout President Trump’s first time period.