Trump's Mideast envoy to meet Netanyahu on Saturday, Israeli official says

(Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff volition conscionable Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu connected Saturday, an Israeli authoritative said, amid efforts to unafraid a hostage woody and ceasefire successful Gaza.

A 2nd Israeli authoritative said immoderate advancement had been made successful the indirect talks betwixt Israel and Palestinian militant radical Hamas, mediated by Egypt, Qatar and the United States, to scope a woody successful Gaza.

The mediators are making caller efforts to scope a woody to halt the warring successful the enclave and escaped the remaining Israeli hostages held determination earlier Trump takes bureau connected Jan. 20.

On Saturday, the Palestinian civilian exigency work said 8 radical were killed, including 2 women and 2 children, successful an Israeli airstrike connected a erstwhile schoolhouse sheltering displaced families successful Jabalia, successful the bluish Gaza Strip.

The Israeli subject said the onslaught had targeted Hamas militants who were operating astatine the schoolhouse and that it had taken measures to trim the hazard of harm to civilians.

Israel launched its battle connected Gaza aft Hamas fighters stormed crossed its borders successful October 2023, sidesplitting 1,200 radical and taking much than 250 hostages, according to Israeli tallies.

Since then, much than 46,000 radical person been killed successful Gaza, according to Palestinian wellness officials, with overmuch of the enclave laid to discarded and gripped by a humanitarian crisis, with astir of its colonisation displaced.