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US President Donald Trump’s envoy Jared Kushner left Jerusalem on Monday without a breakthrough after two days of talks with Israeli and Hamas leaders, with the two sides remaining divided over what comes first – Hamas disarmament or an Israeli withdrawal – under a US-backed plan for Gaza.
Kushner met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, a day after holding talks in Egypt with Hamas political chief Khalil al-Hayya. Kushner described his nearly four-hour meeting with Netanyahu as “good” and said Hamas representatives had said “all the right things.”
The meeting came less than a month after Trump announced that Hamas had agreed to disarm in phases under a 15-point roadmap proposed by his Board of Peace, alongside a gradual Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. The Iran-backed group says it accepted the roadmap but wants Israel to halt its…
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