ISTANBUL

Egypt will host an international peace summit in the Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh on Monday.

Leaders from more than 20 countries are invited to participate in the summit, co-chaired by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and his American counterpart, Donald Trump, according to the Egyptian presidency.

The list of invited leaders to the summit cited by Egypt’s state-run Al-Qahera News channel and Youm7 news website includes:

- US President Donald Trump

- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan

- Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani

- Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman

- UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan

- French President Emmanuel Macron

- Jordanian King Abdullah II

- Bahraini King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

- Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, though the state-run Tasnim news agency said Tehran will not attend, but there was no official confirmation yet of the report.

- Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto

- British Prime Minister Keir Starmer

- Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez

- Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni

- Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif

- German Chancellor Friedrich Merz

- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres

- European Council President Antonio Costa

Egypt said the peace summit in Sharm el-Sheikh aims “to end the war in the Gaza Strip, enhance efforts to bring peace and stability to the Middle East, and usher in a new phase of regional security and stability.”

Trump announced Wednesday that Israel and Hamas agreed to the first phase of a 20-point plan he laid out Sept. 29 to bring a ceasefire to Gaza, release all Israeli captives being held there in exchange for around 2,000

Palestinian prisoners, and a gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces from the entire Gaza Strip. The first phase of the deal came into force on Friday.

A second phase of the plan calls for the establishment of a new governing mechanism in Gaza without Hamas’ participation, the formation of a multinational force, and the disarmament of Hamas.

Since October 2023, Israeli attacks have killed over 67,600 Palestinians in the enclave, most of them women and children, and rendered it uninhabitable.

Update follows.