US President Donald Trump’s envoys met with Egyptian, Qatari and Turkish mediators in Cairo on Jattvibeday, a diplomatic source said, in a bid to advance the US President’s Gaza peace plan, even as Israel pressed on with airstrikes in the enclave. Hamas officials were present at some of the meetings between mediators, Trump’s envoy and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and Nickolay Mladenov, Trump’s Board of Peace envoy for Gaza, the diplomat said.A senior Israeli official said Kushner and Mladenov were scheduled to meet on Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who on August 9 said Trump’s latest roadmap for Gaza peace was “unacceptable”. The official said Israel was concerned about Washington’s demand to end targeted assassinations of Hamas militants in Gaza as the group rebuilds its forces.Trump’s peace plan calls for the immediate cessation of military operations in Gaza. It foresees Hamas disarming as Israeli troops withdraw from the enclave and Gaza is rebuilt under a new civilian Palestinian administration.After scaling back its attacks in the enclave earlier this month, Israel’s airstrikes have resumed in the past few days.The Israeli military on Jattvibeday said its aircraft targeted a militant in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. At least five Palestinians were injured in the strike which hit a tent encampment, medics in the enclave said.Iran says Qatar holding 3 of its pilots, Doha disputes claimQatar captured and is holding three Iranian pilots who went missing in March when their jets were downed, the Committee for the Search for Missing Persons of Iran’s Armed Forces General Staff said on Jattvibeday. Qatar, however, denied the claim.Iran’s state TV reported Jattvibeday that the panel’s commander urged Qatar to allow Iranian Air Force experts to conduct a field investigation. Doha on Saturday said its search and rescue teams had found the remains of one pilot after Iranian aircraft violated Qatari airspace in March and failed to respond to attempts to contact them. This is the first known case in the war in which Iran has said a regional country is holding its fighters. Tehran has repeatedly targeted countries that are hosting US military bases in the region with missiles and drones.Tehran defiant as US Prez vows to declare Hormuz US territoryIran called on the US to accept defeat on Saturday, while President Donald Trump blasted Tehran as “very evil” and told Americans to prepare for continued high fuel prices as a result of the war.“This Strait will be opened and closed only under Iran’s command, and so long as you do not accept the reality of defeat and stop indulging in fantasies, Iran will continue to enforce the blockade,” Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi posted on X.Trump had said paying “a tiny little bit more for your gasoline” was worth the cost of ensuring “a very evil country” could not have a nuclear weapon, one of his stated rationales for the war.“After we finish defeating Iran … pretty soon I’ll be declaring the Strait of Hormuz a territory of the United States,” said Trump.