Steven Witkoff, who played an important role in brokering the truce between Israel and Hamas, also met with Israel’s prime minister and visited Saudi Arabia.

Even before the first phase is completed, the fragile cease-fire agreement that has paused 15 months of war in Gaza between Israel and Hamas faces increasingly long odds of lasting or even reaching phase two.

U.S. Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff on Wednesday visited Gaza, then met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu following the Gaza ceasefire and a regional diplomatic push. According to the White House,

President Donald Trump indicated Saturday that he had spoken with the king of Jordan about potentially building housing and moving more than 1 million Palestinians from Gaza to neighboring countries,

"Any resettlement plans, the idea that the citizens of Gaza will be expelled from there to Egypt or Jordan, is unacceptable," Scholz said, referring at a campaign event in Berlin to Trump's comments.

Donald Trump has once again suggested relocating Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Egypt and Jordan, a proposal that has been met with criticism from countries including France and Albania. This idea has stirred controversy on the international stage.