Hamas reps meeting with Egyptian negotiators to discuss Trump’s Gaza peace plan

Nypost · 🇮🇱 public Israel · Apr 12, 2026 · 459 words · By Jewish News Syndicate

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Hamas reps meeting with Egyptian negotiators to discuss Trump’s Gaza peace plan See more of our coverage in your search results.

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What happened

Hamas reps meeting with Egyptian negotiators to discuss Trump’s Gaza peace plan See more of our coverage in your search results.

Why it matters

Add The New York Post on GoogleHamas representatives were expected to hold talks with Egyptian mediators in Cairo on Sunday to discuss the implementation of US President Donald Trump’s peace plan for the Gaza Strip, two Hamas officials told AFP.

Common ground

The talks will also be focused on “halting Israeli violations,” one Hamas official said, speaking on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to speak with the press.

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fact_checkClaims Checked

eFinder analyzed this article and checked 11 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “On Thursday, the Israeli military eliminated two Palestinian terrorists who were planning “imminent” terror attacks against soldiers deployed in the Strip”

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Multiple sources, including JNS and Google News, report that the IDF killed two terrorists on Thursday who were planning imminent attacks.

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web search NEUTRAL — The Israel Defense Forces on Thursday said it had killed a Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist who infiltrated the Jewish state from Gaza during the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, and, separately, …
https://www.jns.org/news/israel-news/idf-kills-oct-7-terrori…

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web search NEUTRAL — An IDF spokesperson said the airstrike thwarted an attack against Israeli civilians and security forces along the Israel-Egypt border. One of the militants killed, Isam Subahi Isamil Batash, is believ…
https://aseannow.com/topic/517795-israeli-airstrike-kills-tw…

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web search NEUTRAL — Israeli military investigates 'reports of harm to civilians' after hundreds killed near Gaza aid sites.Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian. manniefabian. The IDF says it struck and killed two Palestinian terror o…
https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqNggKIjBDQklTSGpvSmMzUnZj…

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Claim 2: “In the northern Strip, the IDF struck Ahmed Mohammed Saleh, a Hamas Nukhba Force terrorist”

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The provided evidence for this claim consists of general information about the IDF and does not mention Ahmed Mohammed Saleh or the Nukhba Force.

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web search NEUTRAL — Jan 3, 2009 · The IDF struck ~100 Hezbollah targets in several areas in southern Lebanon, including observation posts, a weapons storage facility and additional Hezbollah terror infrastructure sites i…
https://x.com/IDF

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web search NEUTRAL — Safeguarding the State of Israel and its residents against threats. Discover the IDF's mission and values.
https://m.www.idf.il/en/

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web search NEUTRAL — It is the sole military wing of the Israeli security apparatus. The IDF is headed by the chief of the general staff, who is subordinate to the defense minister.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Defense_Forces

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Claim 3: “ending the two-year war that began when Hamas, other Palestinian terrorist groups and Gazan “civilians” invaded the northwestern Negev on Oct. 7, 2023”

VERIFIED BY REFERENCE

Wikipedia and Al Jazeera confirm the war began on October 7, 2023, with an attack by Hamas and other groups on southern Israel/the Negev.

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web search NEUTRAL — The Gaza genocide is the ongoing, intentional, and systematic destruction of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip carried out by Israel during the Gaza war. It encompasses mass killings, deliberat…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide

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web search NEUTRAL — Israel’s assault on Gaza began on October 7, 2023, in response to attacks on southern Israel by fighters from the Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, and other Palestinian groups, during which 1…
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/7/two-years-of-israel…

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web search NEUTRAL — On 7 October 2023, Hamas fighters launched an assault from Gaza, killing about 1,200 people in Israel and taking 251 hostages. This triggered a massive Israeli military offensive, by land, sea and air…
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgr71z0jp4o

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Claim 4: “Top Hamas leaders, including Khaled Mashaal and Musa Abu Marzouk, have rejected key parts of Trump’s plan in recent months, including disarmament”

INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE

No evidence was provided in the search results regarding the specific rejections of disarmament by Khaled Mashaal and Musa Abu Marzouk.

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Claim 5: “The terms of the ceasefire leave the IDF in control of approximately half of Gaza”

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One web search result mentions that the IDF still controls more than half of Gaza's territory in the context of Trump's plan, but this is not corroborated by multiple independent sources as a specific term of the ceasefire.

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Claim 6: “The current truce went into effect in the Gaza Strip on Oct. 10, 2025”

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Multiple sources, including Bloomberg and Euronews, explicitly state that the truce in the Gaza Strip went into effect on October 10, 2025.

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web search NEUTRAL — Qatar, alongside Egypt and the United States, helped secure the long-elusive truce in Gaza, which came into effect on October 10.There have been multiple deadly incidents of Israeli forces firing on P…
https://today.rtl.lu/news/world/mediators-qatar-egypt-call-f…

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web search NEUTRAL — Take our Survey. By Fiona MacDonald. October 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM GMT+3. Save. Translate. Listen.President Trump Visits Israel And Egypt After Gaza Ceasefire Takes Effect.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-14/gaza-truc…

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web search NEUTRAL — The government and other elements of the truce that went into effect on 10 October, such as disarming Hamas and sending an international security force, are to be supervised by the "Board of Peace," a…
https://www.euronews.com/2026/01/12/hamas-says-it-will-disso…

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Claim 7: “Mashaal told an anti-Israel summit in Istanbul on Dec. 6”

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Claim 8: “The Hamas delegation will also meet with representatives of other Palestinian terrorist organizations to discuss those issues”

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While evidence confirms the meeting with Egyptian mediators and the existence of the peace plan, there is no specific evidence in the provided results confirming a planned meeting with other Palestinian terrorist organizations.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel, fought as part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts. The war began on 7 October 2023, when the Palestinian mi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Islamic Resistance Movement, abbreviated Hamas (an acronym from the Arabic: حركة المقاومة الإسلامية, romanized: Ḥarakat al-Muqāwamah al-ʾIslāmiyyah), is a Sunni Islamist Palestinian nationalist po…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — As of 3 May 2026, at least 75,811 people (73,770+ Palestinians and 2,039+ Israelis) have been reported killed in the Gaza war according to the Gaza Health Ministry (GHM) and Israeli Ministry of Foreig…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Gaza_war

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Claim 9: “In southern Gaza, the IDF killed Mahmoud Barim, a terrorist in the Al-Mujahideen Brigades, the military arm of the Palestinian Mujahideen Movement, a group that splintered from Fatah”

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The provided evidence for this claim consists of general information about the IDF and does not mention Mahmoud Barim or the Al-Mujahideen Brigades.

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web search NEUTRAL — Safeguarding the State of Israel and its residents against threats. Discover the IDF's mission and values.
https://m.www.idf.il/en/

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Claim 10: “Hamas representatives were expected to hold talks with Egyptian mediators in Cairo on Sunday to discuss the implementation of US President Donald Trump’s peace plan for the Gaza Strip”

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Multiple independent web search results confirm that Hamas representatives were expected to meet Egyptian mediators in Cairo on Sunday to discuss the implementation of Donald Trump's peace plan.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza peace plan, officially the Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict, is a multilateral agreement between Israel and Hamas that aims to address the ongoing Gaza war and broader Middle Easte…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_peace_plan

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The history of Hamas is an account of the Palestinian nationalist and Islamist – described by some as fundamentalist – socio-political organization based in the Gaza Strip with an associated paramilit…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Hamas

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A hostages-and-prisoners exchange and armistice between Israel and Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups in the Gaza Strip took effect from 19 January to 18 March 2025, during the Gaza war. It include…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2025_Gaza_war_ceasefir…

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Claim 11: “On Saturday, an Israeli soldier was severely injured as a result of an operational accident in central Gaza”

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Three independent news sources (Israel National News and others) confirm that an IDF soldier was severely injured in an operational accident in central Gaza on Saturday.

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web search NEUTRAL — One IDF soldier was severely injured during an operational accident in central Gaza, the military announced on Saturday. The soldier was evacuated to a hospital for medical treatment, and his family h…
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-892636

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web search NEUTRAL — IDF: Earlier today (Saturday), an IDF soldier was severely injured as a result of an operational accident in central Gaza. The soldier was evacuated to a hospital to receive medical treatment. His fam…
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/flashes/682967

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web search NEUTRAL — Earlier today, an IDF soldier was seriously injured as a result of an operational accident in the central Gaza Strip. According to the IDF Spokesperson, the soldier was evacuated to receive medical tr…
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/n9islhd5d

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