Israel will restrict aid into Gaza and delay plans to open the Rafah border crossing from Egypt at least until after Wednesday, reports say.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara, along with President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal, welcomed US President Donald Trump upon his arrival at Ben-Gurion International Airport.

Last month, President Donald Trump proposed a 20-point plan for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip ahead of this week's negotiations in Egypt.

US President Donald Trump will visit Israel “in the coming days,” Israeli President Isaac Herzog said Thursday, as the government is set to vote on a Gaza ceasefire deal with Hamas. Herzog’s office said in a statement that Trump is expected to arrive in Israel “in the coming days” amid “significant progress in talks on the release of hostages.”

The Red Cross said on Monday it had begun an operation in the Gaza Strip to pick up the first of 20 surviving Israeli hostages from militant group Hamas, the initial phase of a ceasefire agreement aimed at ending the conflict in Gaza that U.