Tel Aviv, Oct. 13 -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday stated that he wouldn't be travelling to Egypt's Sharm El-Sheikh to attend the Gaza Peace Summit with global leaders, citing "time constraints" ahead of the start of the Shemini Atzeret-Simchat Torah holiday, which begins tonight.

According to The Times of Israel, following reports that Netanyahu had accepted Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi's invitation to join the summit, his office announced that he would not be making the trip.

Netanyahu was with US President Donald Trump in the Knesset Chamber when he spoke to the Egyptian President.

In a post on X, the Office of the Prime Minister of Israel stated that Trump also invited Netanyahu for the summit, but ...