Middle East : Kushner to meet Netanyahu after talks with Hamas on Gaza plan

Kushner to meet Netanyahu after talks with Hamas leaders US envoy Jared Kushner is set to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after holding talks with Hamas leaders in Egypt, as Washington seeks to revive a Gaza peace plan endorsed by Hamas but rejected by Israel. Netanyahu has insisted that any settlement must ensure Hamas is “genuinely disarmed”. Kushner, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, met Hamas’s new leader Khalil al-Hayya in the Egyptian city of el-Alamein on Sunday, AFP reported.

The US envoy urged Hamas to take “concrete, verifiable steps” and conveyed that “Gaza can never again be a source of terror for Israel”, while the group reiterated its commitment to the proposed plan, the report said. Middle East negotiator and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner was meeting with Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu after the premier rejected the 15-point, US-backed road map to move the truce deal forward in Gaza. US envoy Jared Kushner is due to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday after holding talks with Hamas leaders in Egypt aimed at reviving a US-backed Gaza peace plan that Israel has so far rejected.

Noga Tarnopolsky, FRANCE 24's correspondent in Israel, has more on the stakes related to this visit. JERUSALEM (AP) — Mideast negotiator and Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner was meeting Monday with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after the premier rejected the 15-point, U.S.-backed road map to move the truce deal forward in Gaza. The talks come one day after the US president's son-in-law held a rare meeting with Hamas leaders in Egypt.

Kushner to hold talks with Netanyahu after rare meeting with Hamas