Hamas and Israel set for Trump's Gaza plan peace talks in Egypt

Israeli, Hamas and American delegations were due in Egypt to discuss a 20-point peace plan tabled by President Donald Trump to halt the conflict.

Israel and Hamas began indirect peace talks Monday, with hopes it could represent the best chance yet to end the two-year war and free the remaining hostages from Gaza.

Egypt’s state-owned Al-Qahera News television station reported that the talks began with a meeting between Arab mediators and the Hamas delegation. Mediators will then meet with the Israeli delegation, the station said.

Egyptian and Qatari mediators will discuss the outcome of their meetings with both parties, before U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff joins the talks, it said.

"I really think we’re going to have a deal. We have a really good chance of making a deal, and it will be a lasting deal," President Donald Trump told reporters at a media gathering Monday.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said at a briefing Monday that Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner were holding talks with "their respective parties from all sides."