[Today's Prayer] Gaza War Ceasefire Negotiation Team Gathered in Egypt…Israeli Airstrikes Continue

A mediation team is gathering in Egypt to seek a ceasefire in the Gaza War, but there is little hope that the negotiations will be successful. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied reports that the Israeli military would withdraw from the Gaza-Egypt border area, which was a key point in the negotiations. Israel continued its airstrikes on the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.

On the 23rd, Reuters reported, citing an Egyptian official, that the mediation team met to seek a compromise between Israel and Hamas. CBS News in the United States reported that Brett McGurk, the White House National Security Council (NSC) Middle East Coordinator and Middle East Advisor to President Joe Biden, participated. A delegation from Israel led by David Barnea, director of the Mossad (secret intelligence agency), and Ronen Bar, director of the Shin Bet (intelligence agency), also arrived in Cairo. However, it is reported that CIA Director William Burns did not arrive. The previous day, Israeli media also reported that Yahya Sinwar, the top political leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, demanded his life be guaranteed as a condition for a ceasefire.

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The prevailing expectation is that the result of the ceasefire negotiations will be negative. Reuters and other news agencies reported that Prime Minister Netanyahu denied media reports that he was considering deploying international forces in the Philadelphia Corridor, a narrow 14km border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, and the Netzarim Corridor, a 6.4km long corridor that divides the Gaza Strip into the north and south.

However, Hamas and Egypt maintain that they cannot accept the presence of Israeli troops in the area. The Israeli newspaper Yedioth Arnos quoted a source familiar with the negotiations as saying that “the possibility of an agreement is low,” but that “attempts are underway to hold talks on the 23rd and 24th.”

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6 Therefore let everyone who is godly offer prayer to you at a time when you may be found; surely in the rush of great waters, they shall not reach him. 7 You are a hiding place for me; you preserve me from trouble; you surround me with shouts of deliverance. Selah 8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you. (Psalm 32:6-8)

Amen! We hear news from the Gaza ceasefire negotiation team gathered in Egypt.

Dear Jesus, please have mercy on these two peoples, Israel and Palestine, and save them. Please do not let the negotiation proceed with evil thoughts that come from sin, and may the good God take control of the situation.

When the ceasefire negotiations are held, may only the holy will of God, not the will of man, be fulfilled!

We believe that even if the flood comes, it will not reach those who pray.

At this moment, would you look at those who pray to Jesus in Israel and Palestine, and look at those who pray for these two peoples! May the Lord be a shelter in Israel and Palestine and protect them from trouble.

May the song of salvation resound now in the midst of these two peoples!