Netanyahu added in a press conference with the US Vice President that “Israel will work on disarming Hamas and completely undermining it,” adding: “We have managed to isolate Hamas and succeeded in returning the captives.”
The Egyptian city of Sharm El Sheikh hosted an international summit on October 13, co-chaired by Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and his American counterpart Donald Trump, with leaders from more than 20 countries in attendance.
On October 13, the Palestinian Hamas movement launched an initiative and later handed over a number of detainees’ bodies, confirming that it continues to work on locating the remaining bodies to hand them over to Israel. In return, Israel released about 2000 Palestinian detainees and prisoners from its prisons as part of US President Donald Trump’s plan to end the war in Gaza.
The ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement came into effect on October 10.
