Global leaders gather in Sharm el-Sheikh to push for lasting peace and stability in the Middle East
U.S. President Donald Trump and Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi will co-host a high-stakes Gaza peace summit in Sharm el-Sheikh on Monday, October 13, Egypt declared on Saturday. The summit is the most important diplomatic effort to date to end the devastating war in Gaza and re-ignite a more wide-ranging peace map for the Middle East.
Representatives of over two dozen nations, and senior foreign diplomats and negotiators will attend the meeting according to the Egyptian president. Its agenda has three key goals —
1. The end of the war in the Gaza Strip
2. Prosperity and stability of the broader region
3. Establishing a new framework of long-term security cooperation.
World leaders marks new momentum
While there are uncertainty whether or not Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will take part, Hamas already declared that it will not sit down for the meeting, saying that it would rather negotiate indirectly through Qatari and Egyptian mediators, as it did in earlier ceasefire talks.
The summit will be joined by top world leaders like UN Secretary-General António Guterres, French President Emmanuel Macron, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.
The guest list indicates the nature of growing international consensus that the cycle of violence between Israel and Hamas must be broken with political negotiations rather than a long period of war.
Tragic prelude to peace efforts
The lead-up to the summit was marred by tragedy when three Qatari diplomats were killed and two injured near Sharm el-Sheikh on their way to the resort city, Egyptian officials said. The diplomats were part of Qatar’s protocol team organizing the event.
Egyptian officials have reassured despite the hiccup that the summit will take place as planned, citing its “critical importance for regional stability.”. The diplomats were part of Qatar’s protocol team organizing the event.
A new push for peace
The meeting comes just days after Israel and Hamas signed a U.S.-mediated ceasefire deal — the first significant development since the violence erupted in October 2023, when Hamas launched an attack on Israel that killed at least 1,200 people and took 251 hostage. Israel’s subsequent Gaza campaign has killed over 67,000 Palestinians.
The initial phase of the Trump-endorsed proposal demands a ceasefire, the release of hostages, and the release of Palestinian detainees by Israel.
The officials expect that the Sharm el-Sheikh meeting will lay the groundwork for a bigger deal encompassing humanitarian relief, reconstruction, and prospective Gaza rule.
Toward a new regional order
With the eyes of the world on the Red Sea beach resort town, the stakes have never been higher. The summit is not only an attempt to end a killing war but also a chance to remake the security and diplomatic map of the Middle East.
If it succeeds, it could mark the beginning of what President Sisi referred to as “a new era of regional security and stability” — one based not on aggression, but on cooperation and shared peace.
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