UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer will also be attending the conference, which will be chaired by US President Donald Trump and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi.
Macron was previously reported to be heading to Egypt; he has attempted to take a leadership role in addressing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, leading a push in which a string of Western nations have recognized a Palestinian state. Israel and the US have opposed that effort.
Sanchez is an outspoken critic of Israel. Meloni recently criticized a flotilla that aimed unsuccessfully to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza and deliver a token amount of humanitarian aid there.
Axios has reported that Israel will not participate in the summit, which will occur on the same day that the release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza is expected to start.
Hamas has said it will not take part. Hossam Badran, a Hamas political bureau member, told AFP in an interview that the Palestinian terror group “will not be involved.”
Hamas “acted principally through… Qatari and Egyptian mediators” during previous talks on Gaza, he said.
UK universities told to crack down on antisemitism after Manchester synagogue attack
British universities must take stronger action to protect Jewish students, the British government says, after a deadly attack on a synagogue in northern England and amid concerns over antisemitism on campuses in Britain and the United States.
Young people must be equipped to spot and challenge misinformation online, the government says, urging universities to use every tool available to confront hate and division.
“One instance of antisemitic abuse is one too many,” UK Education Minister Bridget Phillipson said in a statement.
“So I’m clear: the buck stops with universities when it comes to ridding their campuses of hate – and they have my full backing to use their powers to do so.”
On October 2, a British man of Syrian descent drove a car into pedestrians and then began stabbing several people on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, outside Manchester’s Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue. Two men were killed in the attack.
In the aftermath, Phillipson wrote to university vice-chancellors urging “practical and proportionate steps” to ensure campuses remain safe spaces. New rules introduced in August require institutions to have clear policies and reporting mechanisms to address harassment of all kinds.
Last year, Britain reported its second-worst year in modern times for antisemitism, with more than 3,500 incidents recorded, the Community Security Trust, which provides security to Jewish organizations across the country, said earlier this year.
UN chief Guterres confirms attendance at upcoming Gaza peace summit in Egypt
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will also attend the international summit in Egypt next week chaired by US President Donald Trump on his peace plan for Gaza, a UN spokesman says.
Guterres “is traveling to Egypt to attend on Monday the Sharm el-Sheikh Summit for Peace,” his spokesman’s office says, adding that Guterres will return to UN headquarters on Wednesday.
On Friday, as the 72-hour window for Hamas to release all the hostages began, government pointman Gal Hirsch told families of the captives that Israel believes that “the process of releasing your loved ones—our loved ones, the hostages—will begin on Monday morning,” in a message seen by The Times of Israel.
“Living hostages will be handed over to us, and it is expected that the remains of fallen hostages will also be transferred to us,” he wrote.
Hirsch added that Israel had completed preparations for receiving the living hostage inside the Gaza Strip, at the Re’im IDF base, and at hospitals in Israel.
Bodies of slain hostages “will be transferred in a painful and respectful ceremony, in accordance with the proper protocol, to the Institute of Forensic Medicine for the identification process,” he told the families.
After Israel verifies which bodies it has received, said Hirsch, the multinational task force will start searching for those still in Gaza.
“We demand, expect, and work for 100% effort from Hamas, with the assistance of the international force, in order to complete the mission and bring back all the fallen hostages for burial in Israel,” he stressed.
Hirsch told the hostage families that Israel is maintaining close coordination with the Red Cross, the negotiating teams from the mediating countries, and with other countries and international organizations.
“The Home Front Command and I are with you at this time—with vigilance, with anticipation, with pain, with uncertainty, and with joy,” he wrote.
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