US special envoy Steve Witkoff and top White House adviser Jared Kushner landed in Israel on Monday and met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, just over a week into a shaky ceasefire in Gaza.

The leaders discussed “the developments and updates in the region,” a spokeswoman for the Prime Minister’s Office told journalists, without providing any further details. She added that US Vice President JD Vance and his wife were due to visit Israel “for a few days and will be meeting with the prime minister.”

This week’s visit marks Witkoff and Kushner’s second trip to the country since the Gaza ceasefire deal was signed on October 9. The pair are slated to again visit Hostages Square in Tel Aviv during their trip, as 16 bodies of fallen captives remain held in Gaza.

Their visit is part of a concerted US push to keep the fledgling ceasefire from fraying further, a day after Israel carried out deadly strikes across the Strip in response to an attack by Palestinian gunmen who killed two Israeli soldiers in Rafah, on the Israeli side of the ceasefire line.

Witkoff and Kushner, the architects of the ceasefire-hostage deal, will be joined by Vance on Tuesday, the Israel Airports Authority said in a statement Monday announcing preparations for his arrival at Ben Gurion Airport. Traffic disruptions around the airport are expected between 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., and some flights are scheduled to be moved to another terminal, the IAA said.

Witkoff and Kushner’s visit and meetings with top Israeli officials will be aimed at further advancing Washington’s Gaza ceasefire framework, a US official told The Times of Israel on Sunday.

Meanwhile, a Hamas delegation was set to meet in Cairo on Monday with........

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