Egyptian Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Thursday saying that the Israeli and Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) delegation will hold talks in Egypt on June 6. U.S. President Donald Trump said on the same day that Israel had agreed to a "preliminary withdrawal line" in the Gaza Strip.

What will both sides talk about

The Egyptian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Thursday that the talks will be held around Trump's proposed "20-point plan" for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, discussing on-site conditions and detailed arrangements for the exchange of personnel.

Cairo News TV quoted a senior Egyptian security official earlier in the day as reporting that the Israeli and Hamas delegations would hold "indirect talks" in Cairo on the release of Israeli detainees and Palestinian prisoners.

A White House official confirmed that U.S. Special Envoy to the Middle East Witkov and Trump¡¯s son-in-law Kushna will travel to Egypt on Thursday to join the talks.

Hamas issued a statement on the evening of the 3rd, explicitly agreeing to release all detained Israeli personnel and their remains within the framework of the "20-point plan". However, Hamas linked the release of detainees to two conditions: one is to "provide the necessary on-site conditions for the exchange operation", and the other is to negotiate the details of the implementation through the mediator.

After the statement was released, Moussa Abu Marzouk, a member of the Hamas Politburo, said in an interview with Al Jazeera that it was "unrealistic" to exchange all detainees within 72 hours and that it would take time to search for the bodies of the victims. At the same time, he stressed that Hamas has agreed to the first nine clauses of the plan.

Trump: Israel has agreed to ¡°preliminary withdrawal line¡±

Trump posted on social media on Thursday that Israel had agreed to a "preliminary withdrawal line" in the Gaza Strip, and that the United States had informed Hamas that once Hamas confirmed, "the ceasefire will come into effect immediately."

Trump said that after the ceasefire came into effect, Israel and Hamas would begin to exchange Israeli detainees and Palestinian prisoners, which would create conditions for the next phase of withdrawal.

Trump also released a map of the Gaza Strip with Israel's "preliminary withdrawal line" marked in yellow. The Israel Times reported that this line is roughly the same as the Israeli army's line of control in the Gaza Strip before the Israeli army began its large-scale offensive on Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip in September. At that time, the Israeli army controlled about 70% of the Gaza Strip. This means that after Israel completes its "preliminary withdrawal", it will still control large areas of land in the southern Gaza Strip such as Rafah City, Khan Younis City and parts of the northern region.

Trump posted on social media earlier in the day that "Israel has suspended bombing" to allow the detainees to be released. "Hamas must act as soon as possible, otherwise everything will be in vain. I will not tolerate delay-which many believe will happen-or any outcome that causes Gaza to pose a threat (to Israel) again."

Netanyahu said in a video statement on Thursday that he had directed an Israeli delegation headed by Israel¡¯s strategic affairs minister, Delmer, to go to Egypt to finally determine the ¡°technical details¡± of the release of Israeli detainees, and to limit the duration of the talks, hoping to announce that all detainees would return home in ¡°the next few days.¡±

Israeli army continues air strikes

After Hamas responded to the ¡°20 Points Plan¡± on the 3rd, Trump called on Israel to ¡°stop bombing Gaza immediately¡± and subsequently said Israel ¡°has stopped bombing¡± in order to release the detainees.

Officials of the Gaza Civil Defense Department told reporters that Israel launched an airstrike on a residential residential building in the eastern Graphic residential district of Gaza on the same day, killing 18 people and wounding dozens, including children and women.

Local sources and witnesses said that Israeli fighters fired at least one missile at the residential building. About 20 people were buried under the rubble and rescuers were difficult to reach.

The Israeli military confirmed in a statement later that day that it had launched an air strike in the Tufa neighborhood of Gaza City, saying the target was a Hamas member who "posed a threat to Israeli forces in that area."

According to the Israeli Times, in the context of the U.S. push to end the conflict in Gaza, the Israeli military has been ordered to "stop offensive operations in Gaza City", but is still conducting so-called "defense operations".

The health department of the Gaza Strip issued a statement on the afternoon of the 4th, saying that in the past 24 hours, Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip resulted in 66 deaths and 265 injuries; Since the outbreak of a new round of Palestinian-Israeli conflict on October 7, 2023, Israel's military operations in the Gaza Strip have killed more than 67,000 Palestinians and injured more than 169,000 others.

Reporters: Zhao Weihong, Yao Bing, Xia Lin, Lu Yifan, Wang Zhuolun