Turkey's MIT intelligence agency chief met Hamas' negotiating team head Khalil Al-Hayya on Saturday and discussed necessary measures to be taken for proceeding to the second phase of the Gaza peace plan, Turkish security sources said.
The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said MIT chief Ibrahim Kalin met the Hamas delegation in Istanbul within the scope of the Gaza ceasefire agreement, and they discussed steps to be taken to prevent what they said were Israel's ceasefire violations.
They also discussed measures to be taken to resolve existing issues for proceeding to the second phase of the plan, the sources also said, without giving details.
KAN News reported on Friday that discussions on the deal's progress had been frozen until US President Donald Trump hosts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the former's Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, where the two are set to meet later this month.
IDF soldiers gun down two terrorists crossing Gaza's Yellow Line
IDF soldiers shot and killed two Palestinian terrorists observed crossing the Gaza ceasefire's Yellow Line in the northern Strip earlier on Saturday, the Israeli military said.
Forces from the IDF's 16th Brigade operating in the northern Strip identified the terrorists, who were shot dead by the Israeli Air Force, the military stated.
This is a developing story.