U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, will travel to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for a meeting with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Witkoff will reportedly discuss advancing an agreement to normalize relations between Israel and Riyadh as part of an expansion of the Abraham Accords.

Witkoff’s visit follows his participation in the International Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi camp in Poland on Monday, where he led the U.S. delegation.

On Wednesday, Witkoff is scheduled to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem. The talks will focus on fully implementing the first phase of the hostage and ceasefire agreement with Hamas, as well as initiating negotiations for the second phase, the envoy stated on Sunday.

Witkoff on Sunday described the truce deal he helped broker between Israel and the Hamas terrorist organization as “the most worthy thing I could ever do in my life.”

Speaking alongside Israeli President Isaac Herzog at the official opening of the Altneu Synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, Witkoff said, “I have to thank President Trump, because without him, I don’t think that we would have had the deal. When he asked me to do this job, he said to me: We got to get these people home.”

Published on Tue, 28 Jan 2025 09:39:05 -0500. Original article link