The New York Times announced the imminent meeting of “Witkoff” with “Khalil Al-Hiya”.

According to Isna, according to two officials familiar with the plans of “Steve Witkoff”, the US envoy for peace missions, he plans to meet soon with “Khalil al-Hiya”, the chief negotiator of Hamas.

According to the New York Times newspaper, the meeting between Witkoff and Al-Hiya emphasizes that the Trump administration is interested in maintaining a direct line of communication with Hamas, even if this group is on the list of “foreign terrorist organizations”.

This planned meeting also shows that the Zionist and American critics, who say that the US engagement with Hamas gives the group baseless legitimacy, will not dissuade Witkoff from such a meeting.

According to two informed people who asked not to be named, the exact date of the meeting between Witkoff and Al-Hiya is not yet known. Schedules are also subject to change.

One of these two informed people also said that one of the issues that Wittkauf intends to raise with this senior Hamas official is the ceasefire in Gaza.

In October, the Zionist regime and Hamas reached an agreement on a cease-fire in Gaza and the exchange of Israeli prisoners with Palestinian prisoners. This agreement has remained in place despite the increase in violence.

The American special envoy for peace missions and al-Hiya had met before. The first known meeting was in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, in October, before the signing of the ceasefire agreement. Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, who helped broker the truce, was also present at that meeting.

In an October 19 interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” Wittkoff said he offered his condolences to Al-Hiya over the death of her son in September’s airstrikes by Israeli forces in Qatar.

He added: “I told him that I had lost a son and we both experienced really bad situations.”

Wittkoff’s son, Andrew, died of a drug overdose in 2011.

The US special envoy for peace missions is not the first Trump administration official to meet with Hamas. Adam Buhler, the US envoy for the captive response, met with Hamas officials in Qatar several times in March to press for the release of an American-Israeli dual citizen who was held captive by the group at the time, but the talks did not lead to an agreement.

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