(Reuters) -Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not attend Monday's summit on ending the Gaza war in Egypt, his office said, after Cairo had earlier announced he would take part, a prospect that could have been awkward for some confirmed guests.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will skip the Sharm el-Sheikh peace conference hosted by President Donald Trump and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.

CAIRO — Three employees of Qatar's Amiri Diwan, its top government body, were killed in a car crash near Egypt’s Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh, Qatar's embassy in Egypt said in a post on X on Sunday.

The Rafah border crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip is expected to reopen to allow people to cross on Thursday with an EU mission set to deploy there, two sources told Reuters.

President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron shared another long, aggressive handshake while meeting at the signing of the Gaza peace agreement in Egypt.

President Donald Trump claimed Monday that Egypt's president had skipped a meeting with his 2016 rival, Clinton.

The conference has been billed as aimed at ending the war in Gaza. The president of the Palestinian Authority was expected to attend, but Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said he would not.

— Unbridled speechifying: Trump’s pre-Egypt stop in Israel to address the Knesset went long. Israeli lawmakers ran up the clock. The president was impressed, but knew he had guests waiting at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt. “They might not be there by the time I get there, but we’ll give it a shot,” Trump joked.

President Donald Trump is set to co-chair a historic peace summit in Egypt following his visit to Israel on Monday.

The meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, could expedite an end to the Gaza war, but regional powers must still resolve the thorny details that have stymied negotiations.