Jared Kushner met with Hamas leaders in Egypt to discuss Gaza peace road map

Kushner Holds Closed-Door Talks with Hamas in Cairo as Gaza Ceasefire Stalls

Wertynews.com – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly spurned the American-brokered peace framework last week, declaring that no Israeli troops would pull back until Hamas was “genuinely” disarmed. The rebuke marked an unusually open break between Jerusalem and Washington over the fate of Gaza’s post-war governance.

That tension set the backdrop for a rare Sunday session in Egypt, where Jared Trump’s son-in-law and chief Middle East negotiator sat down with Hamas leadership to press forward on implementation details. A source familiar with the discussions told CBS News that the talks centered on converting the broad strokes of the U.S.-backed accord into concrete, verifiable milestones.

The Cairo Session

Hamas figurehead Khalil al-Hayya was present at the Egyptian meeting, which a regional official and a Hamas representative separately confirmed to the Associated Press. Both spoke anonymously because they had not cleared remarks with their respective organizations.

According to the source briefed on the agenda, the conversation covered several interlocking objectives: holding the Israel–Gaza ceasefire steady, handing every governing function over to the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, guaranteeing that Hamas plays no future administrative role in the territory, easing Israeli troop pullouts, and stationing an international stabilizing force across the strip.

The same source stressed a non-negotiable condition: “there can be no ambiguity” — Hamas must surrender all governing authority along with every weapon and piece of military infrastructure, and Gaza must never again serve as a launchpad for terror against Israel.

Trump’s Framework and Netanyahu’s Pushback

Last month, President Trump announced that his international Board of Peace had struck what he called:

“a HISTORIC agreement for the COMPLETE DISARMAMENT of Hamas and all other armed groups in Gaza.”

The accord, laid out across fifteen points, envisions Israeli forces retreating from portions of the territory once “disarmament is completed,” as Trump put it in a July 30 Truth Social post. Security would then fall to an International Stabilization Force alongside a newly created Palestinian police corps.

Netanyahu’s rejection last week broke with the administration’s public messaging and drew swift condemnation from across the region.

Regional Powers Demand Action

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, joined by Jordan, Pakistan, Indonesia, and the ceasefire mediators, released a joint foreign-ministers’ statement denouncing Israel’s refusal to follow the road map. The communiqué declared:

“Israel now bears responsibility for obstructing the efforts to bring peace in Gaza.”

The signatories also urged the Board of Peace and Washington to adopt “immediate and concrete measures” so that no single party could derail implementation.

What Comes Next

Kushner had already met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi earlier on Sunday to discuss putting the ceasefire into practice. He was scheduled to fly to Israel on Monday, where a face-to-face with Netanyahu was expected.

The stakes remain high. The war that erupted after Hamas’s October 7, 2023 terrorist strike on southern Israel has not fully wound down: since the current truce took effect in October 2025, Israeli fire has continued into Gaza, killing more than 1,200 people according to the Hamas-run Palestinian Health Ministry.