A sign announces the upcoming US-brokered international Gaza peace summit, in the Egyptian Red Sea resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh. AFP
"No Israeli official will attend," Shosh Bedrosian, a spokeswoman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, told AFP on Sunday.
Hossam Badran, a Hamas political bureau member, told AFP in an interview that the Palestinian resistance group "will not be involved".
Hamas "acted principally through... Qatari and Egyptian mediators" during previous talks on Gaza, he said.
Earlier, Trump had said he would meet "a lot of leaders" in Egypt on Monday to discuss the future of devastated Gaza.
The gathering in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh will bring together "leaders from more than 20 countries", El-Sisi's office said.
It will seek "to end the war in the Gaza Strip, enhance efforts to achieve peace and stability in the Middle East, and usher in a new era of regional security".
On Sunday, the Egyptian foreign ministry said a "document ending the war in the Gaza Strip" was expected to be signed during the "historic" gathering.
The summit was aimed at inaugurating "a new chapter of peace and security... and alleviating the suffering of the Palestinian people" in Gaza, it said in a statement.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres said he would attend, as will British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, his Italian counterpart, Giorgia Meloni, and Pedro Sánchez of Spain.
French President Emmanuel Macron and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will also travel to Sharm el-Sheikh, according to their offices.
The European Council will be represented by its president, António Costa, a spokesperson said.
The plan for Gaza "offers a real chance to build a just and sustainable peace, and the EU is fully committed to supporting these efforts and contributing to its implementation", the spokesperson added.
Jordan's King Abdullah II is also expected to attend, according to state media.
On Friday afternoon, a ceasefire officially took effect in the Gaza Strip after the Israeli cabinet approved a deal following four days of talks between Israel and Hamas in Sharm el-Sheikh, ending the Israeli two-year genocidal war on the Strip.
The talks aimed to implement the first phase of President Trump’s plan.
Under the Trump plan, Hamas will release 48 Israeli captives in total in exchange for nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners. Twenty captives believed to be alive are expected to be freed early Monday, ahead of the Gaza peace summit later that day.
Israel will carry out a phased withdrawal from Gaza’s cities, to be replaced by a multinational force from Egypt, Qatar, Turkey, and the United Arab Emirates, coordinated by a US-led command centre based in Israel.
Despite the apparent breakthrough, mediators still have the tricky task of securing a longer-term political solution that will see, according to Trump's plan, Hamas hand in weapons and step aside from governing Gaza.
Badran said the second phase of Trump's plan "contains many complexities and difficulties," while one Hamas official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said disarming was "out of the question".
*This story was edited by Ahram Online.
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