Know About 'Gaza Peace Summit' Held In Egypt's Sharm el-Sheikh
Heads of state and senior officials of several countries have arrived in Egypt’s Red Sea city of Sharm el-Sheikh to participate in an international peace summit on Gaza. The summit is also known as Sharm El-Sheikh summit is a diplomatic meeting held in October 2025.
The peace summit follows an agreement to implement the first phase of the Gaza Peace Plan to end the Gaza war, which began in October 2023. Representatives from nearly 30 countries attended the summit, co-chaired by President Donald Trump and Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt. However, the representatives of Israel and Hamas were absent.
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As per Egypt’s state-run Al-Qahera News Channel, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi welcomed several heads of state, including Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Jordan’s King Abdullah II, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa.
Other heads of state, including French President Emmanuel Macron, Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Pakistani Prime Minister Mohammad Shehbaz Sharif, and Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan, attended the Gaza Peace Summit in Egypt.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has said that he could not accept an invitation to attend the summit because of the Jewish holiday of Shemini Atzeret, beginning that evening.
Notably, both the US and Egypt helped broker the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas that came into effect on Friday morning. The cease-fire, exchange of Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners, took place in the initial phase of the proposal to end the war put forward by Donald Trump.
The next phase of any agreement between both sides would include tough issues of full withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza, and whether Hamas would agree to lay down its resistance.
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The summit celebrates an ‘agreement to end the war in Gaza’ and signifies the US and Egypt’s role in getting the deal done. The banners in the city show it as the ‘City of Peace’, a reference to its role in earlier peace talks, as well as including 2005 summit that ended the uprising after the second intifada.
The summit aims to showcase the legacy of Egypt in contributing to ending the war in the Gaza Strip, enhance efforts to bring peace and stability to West Asia, and usher in a new phase of regional security and stability.
