The ministry stated in a release that Minister Rubio will work with partners to build on the historic momentum towards lasting peace and integration in the Middle East. It added that Rubio will subsequently travel to Malaysia, Japan, and South Korea from October 26 to 30.
On Tuesday, J.D. Vance, the U.S. Vice President, arrived in Israel on an urgent visit aimed at “rescuing” the fragile ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. U.S. media reported that Vance’s visit is part of the Trump administration’s efforts to salvage the truce reached just days ago, as part of the White House’s plan to end the two-year-long war in Gaza.
The Egyptian city of Sharm El-Sheikh hosted an international summit on October 13, co-chaired by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and U.S. President Donald Trump, with the attendance of leaders from more than 20 countries. During the summit, Trump, El-Sisi, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and Qatar’s Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani signed a comprehensive document regarding ending the war in the Gaza Strip.
The Palestinian Hamas movement launched an initiative on October 13 and later handed over several of the bodies of detainees, confirming that it continues to work to locate the remaining bodies for delivery to Israel, which, in turn, released around 2,000 Palestinian detainees and prisoners from its prisons, as part of U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to end the war in Gaza.
The ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement took effect on October 10.
