Jared Kushner met Israel’s prime minister after a two-hour session with Hamas’s leader as mediators tried to revive Gaza’s stalled ceasefire road map. The U.S.-backed 15-point plan remains stuck over the order of Hamas disarmament and Israeli withdrawal. Kushner met Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday after spending more than two hours Sunday with Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya in Egypt. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Board of Peace director Nickolay Mladenov joined the Netanyahu meeting, according to sources briefed on it.
Hamas said it accepted the road map, including disarmament, but sought an Israeli halt to attacks and withdrawal toward a disputed yellow line before implementation. Netanyahu rejected withdrawal until Hamas is completely disarmed, while Israeli forces controlled about 60 percent of Gaza. The core dispute is order, not merely destination. Each side wants the other’s most consequential step first, which creates a verification problem: weapons, troop positions and security control cannot be exchanged on trust alone, and stalled implementation keeps civilian recovery suspended.
Regional governments accused Israel of obstructing the plan and urged the U.S.-created Board of Peace to keep implementation moving. The White House and Board of Peace had not published a detailed meeting readout or an agreed timetable at the cutoff. The road map links weapons transfer, Israeli withdrawal, technocratic Palestinian administration, reconstruction and international security deployments. The yellow line was never precisely defined, leaving territorial sequencing vulnerable to incompatible maps and claims.
Statements by Hamas, Israel and mediators represent negotiating positions and require attribution rather than treatment as verified compliance. The principal evidentiary limit at the edition cutoff was this: The closed-door discussions and any revised text or side assurances were not available. The next public records to watch are an agreed 14-day implementation negotiation period and published maps, monitoring rules or reciprocal first steps.