Envoy Steve Witkoff, carrying a message from Donald Trump, broke through the impasse in long-futile cease-fire talks.
Steve Witkoff, a New York real estate developer and investor, was reportedly instrumental in delivering the message to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Trump wanted
Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu and Gaza
The developer, who is president-elect Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy, worked with the main negotiator in the deal.
Steve Witkoff, President-elect Trump's chief Middle East negotiator who played a key role in the Hamas-Israeli ceasefire, is a billionaire real estate developer and investor.
Steve Witkoff met the Israeli prime minister on Saturday following a visit to Doha amid efforts to secure a hostage deal and Gaza ceasefire.
A senior administration official provided more details about how the Israel-Hamas ceasefire and hostage release agreement finally came together.
It turns out that when Trump warned there would be “hell to pay” in Gaza – he didn’t mean Hamas would be making the payment.
The mediators are making new efforts to reach a deal to halt the fighting in Gaza and free the remaining Israeli hostages held there before Trump takes office on January 20.
After the meeting, Netanyahu sent the head of Mossad and others to Qatar to "advance" talks to return hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.
Multiple insiders and officials in both Israel and the US told The Post that it was Trump’s impending inauguration that finally solved a problem that had proved intractable for President
Steve Witkoff, 67, President-elect Donald Trump's special envoy to the Middle East, has emerged as a key player in efforts to broker the Gaza ceasefire deal.