Kushner to visit Israel after Netanyahu rejects Gaza Board of Peace plan
Visit to address Israeli opposition to plan for Hamas to disarm, Israel to withdraw from Gaza, board official says.
US envoy and son-in-law Jared Kushner is set to travel to Israel next week to attempt to mend divisions surrounding a Gaza plan that was dismissed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to officials. Kushner, along with Nickolay Mladenov, the high representative for Gaza on President Trump's Board of Peace, will journey to both Israel and Egypt.
This visit follows Netanyahu's public rejection of a 15-point plan proposed by Mladenov, in which Hamas committed to surrendering its weapons to a new governing committee in Gaza. Despite this, Mladenov indicated that Kushner and Mladenov aimed to engage in "constructive conversations" on progressing Trump's overarching peace plan, which initiated with the October 2025 ceasefire declaration.
The United States and Israel concur on the ultimate goal: a disarmed Hamas. Netanyahu insists on no Israeli pullback from Gaza until Hamas is completely disarmed. The Gaza plan, endorsed by Hamas in late July, envisaged a step-by-step Israeli withdrawal from large swathes of the Gaza Strip. However, Mladenov later clarified that Israel wouldn't need to withdraw its troops until Hamas was fully disarmed.
Netanyahu has expressed skepticism about Hamas's willingness to disarm, advocating for a verifiable weapon destruction process.
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