US Secretary of State Marco Rubio plans to pay a two-day visit to Israel, arriving in the Jewish state on October 23, The Jerusalem Post reports.
The publication notes that US Vice President J.D. Vance arrived in Israel on October 21, and since the beginning of this week, the special envoy of US President Donald Trump, Stephen Wittkoff, and the son-in-law of the White House, Jared Kushner, are in the Jewish state. American officials are working to maintain a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
On October 9, Trump announced that representatives of Israel and the radical Palestinian Hamas movement had reached an agreement on the first phase of the peace plan, which would include the release of all hostages held in the Gaza Strip and the withdrawal of Israeli forces to agreed positions.
