Sources to Asharq Al-Awsat: Egyptian-Jordanian-Palestinian Summit in Cairo Thursday

Jordanian King Abdullah meets with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on the sidelines of the Arab summit at the Dead Sea in 2017 (AFP photo)
Jordanian King Abdullah meets with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on the sidelines of the Arab summit at the Dead Sea in 2017 (AFP photo)
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Sources to Asharq Al-Awsat: Egyptian-Jordanian-Palestinian Summit in Cairo Thursday

Jordanian King Abdullah meets with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on the sidelines of the Arab summit at the Dead Sea in 2017 (AFP photo)
Jordanian King Abdullah meets with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on the sidelines of the Arab summit at the Dead Sea in 2017 (AFP photo)

The tripartite Egyptian-Jordanian-Palestinian summit will be held in Cairo on Thursday, an Egyptian source told Asharq Al-Awsat.

He said the meeting aims to unify the Arab position towards the resumption of negotiations with the United States on peace talks.

“The summit should build on a unified Arab stand concerning the resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, and on the contacts held with Washington following the visit of Director of the US Central Intelligence Agency William Burns to Cairo, Ramallah and Tel Aviv two weeks ago,” the source said.

He added that one of the results of Burns’ talks in the region is the recent meeting held between Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah.

The summit will bring together Jordanian King Abdullah II, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Abbas.

A Jordanian source revealed that the summit mainly seeks to coordinate positions over the latest developments in the region ahead of Abbas's trip to the United Nations, where he is expected to deliver a speech.

On Monday, Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said that he is looking forward to the tripartite summit to urge the US administration to fulfill its promise on the establishment of two states and to end “racial” settlements, as well as resolving Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands.



Israeli Strikes on Gaza Strip Leave 15 Dead, Medics Say

 Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Gaza City November 27, 2024. (Reuters)
Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Gaza City November 27, 2024. (Reuters)
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Israeli Strikes on Gaza Strip Leave 15 Dead, Medics Say

 Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Gaza City November 27, 2024. (Reuters)
Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Gaza City November 27, 2024. (Reuters)

Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip killed 15 people on Wednesday, some of them in a school housing displaced people, medics in Gaza said, adding that the fatalities included two sons of a former Hamas spokesman.

Health officials in the Hamas-run enclave said eight Palestinians were killed and dozens of others wounded in an Israeli strike that hit the Al-Tabeaeen School, which was sheltering displaced families in Gaza City. Among those killed were two sons of former Hamas spokesman, Fawzi Barhoum, according to medics and Barhoum himself.

In the Shejaia suburb of Gaza City, another strike killed four people, while three people were killed in an Israeli air strike in Beit Lahiya on the northern edge of the enclave where army forces have been operating since last month.

Separately, a ceasefire between Israel and Iran-backed group Hezbollah came into effect on Wednesday after both sides accepted an agreement brokered by the US and France, a rare victory for diplomacy in a region shaken by two wars for over a year.

Iran-backed Hezbollah began firing missiles at Israel in solidarity with Hamas after the Palestinian group attacked Israel in October of 2023, killing around 1,200 people and capturing over 250 hostages, Israel has said, triggering the Gaza war.

Israel's 13-month campaign in Gaza has left nearly 44,200 people dead and displaced nearly all the enclave's population at least once, according to Gaza health officials.

Months of attempts to negotiate a ceasefire have yielded scant progress and negotiations are now on hold, with mediator Qatar saying it has told the two warring parties it would suspend its efforts until the sides are prepared to make concessions.