The meeting came a day after US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law held an unusual meeting with Hamas leaders in Egypt.
Published August 17, 2026
US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is scheduled to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to push forward with the 15-point Gaza plan that Israel has rejected.
Monday’s meeting comes a day after Kushner visited El Alamein, Egypt, to meet with mediators from Qatar, Turkey and Egypt. He was accompanied by Peace Committee Secretary-General Nikolai Mladenov and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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Kushner also held an unusual meeting with members of Hamas’ political leadership “with the aim of moving the roadmap’s obligations to a concrete and verifiable stage,” a person familiar with the matter told Al Jazeera.
In late July, President Trump said an agreement had been reached to disarm Hamas. The agreement is the result of a U.S.-led peace commission launched in February 2026 that includes around 40 countries, including Israel and several Arab states, but no Palestinian representatives, and Trump was appointed lifetime chairman.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is up for re-election in October, has publicly rejected the plan, objecting to the provision that Hamas would gradually disarm and hand over control of the Gaza Strip to international forces in exchange for Israeli forces withdrawing from Gaza.
Hamas has accepted the plan, but said its implementation depends on Israel first fulfilling its own commitments, including withdrawing troops and ceasing attacks.
Peace committee officials confirmed last week that Mr. Kushner would lead a delegation to Egypt and Israel to try to break the diplomatic impasse.
The peace committee was set up under a broader Gaza “ceasefire” agreed between Israel and Hamas at the end of 2025. At least 1,260 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza by Israel since the ceasefire took effect.
