US special envoy Jared Kushner's Middle East peace plan talks have ended without a breakthrough after meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas' political chief Khalil al-Hayya this week. A senior Israeli official stated that no redeployment or reconstruction in Gaza would occur before Hamas is disarmed, with the first step being to require Hamas to hand over its weapons for decommissioning under US supervision. Kushner suggested that progress on disarmament could be made within 30 days, but Netanyahu has emphasized that any withdrawal from Gaza depends on "genuine" disarmament by Hamas. Foreign ministers of several countries have condemned Israel's rejection of the plan in a joint statement.
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US envoy Jared Kushner met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday to discuss the Gaza peace plan, which aims to end the war in the Gaza Strip. The two leaders agreed that no reconstruction or redeployment of Israeli troops will occur in the Gaza Strip until Hamas is disarmed and hands over its weapons to an American military general for decommissioning. This is a key demand of Netanyahu's government, which has rejected previous peace plans proposed by the US. In fact, Israel has been accused by several countries, including the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkey, and Egypt, of "obstructing efforts to bring peace in Gaza and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory" after Netanyahu publicly rejected the 15-point plan for Gaza. The US envoy's meetings with Israeli and Hamas leaders have been ongoing, but so far, there has been no significant movement on implementing the peace plan. Netanyahu's government is reportedly hesitant to make concessions to Hamas until it disarms completely, which is a requirement of the peace plan.
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A senior Israeli official told news agency AFP that the US and Israel had "agreed that no redeployment or reconstruction would take place in the Gaza Strip before Hamas is disarmed throughout Gaza."
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US special envoy Jared Kushner's meetings with Israeli and Hamas leaders this week have drawn to a close with no significant movement on Washington's proposed Gaza peace plan.
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Kushner, the son-in-law of US President Donald Trump, flew out to the Middle East to meet with Hamas' political chief Khalil al-Hayya and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after the latter publicly rejected the latest 15-point roadmap aimed at ending the conflict earlier this month.
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The plan, announced by Trump's Board of Peace in late July, aims to secure the complete Israeli withdrawal from Gaza while requiring Hamas to disarm and relinquish control of governance of the territory.
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The militant group has agreed to the plan, while Netanyahu has said that any withdrawal would depend on Hamas "genuinely" disarming.
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Following the meeting between Kushner and Netanyahu - who is gearing up for Israel's October elections - a senior Israeli official told news agency AFP that the two sides had "agreed that no redeployment or reconstruction would take place in the Gaza Strip before Hamas is disarmed throughout Gaza."
"It was also agreed that the first step toward the demilitarisation of the Strip would be to require Hamas to hand over its weapons for decommissioning under the supervision of an American general," they added.
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In a statement, Netanyahu's office called the meeting "deep and constructive," adding that both Israel and the Board of Peace were "determined" that the "disarmament and demilitarisation of Gaza" needed to be "prompt and completed before any reconstruction happens."
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It said they had also agreed on the creation of two working groups, one focused on disarmament and demilitarisation and the other on "sanitation, clean water and other public health issues" for Gazans.
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Speaking to Fox News later on Monday, Kushner suggested that there could be progress on getting Hamas to disarm within "as little as 30 days."
"We could be seeing progress in as little as 30 days, hopefully starting to take some of the weapons out and hopefully, you know, filling in some of the tunnels," he said.
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The meetings came as Foreign Ministers from Turkey, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates issued a joint statement on Sunday condemning Israel's rejection of Washington's Gaza plan.
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"Rejecting the Road Map constitutes an explicit refusal to proceed with the implementation of the Comprehensive Plan, and directly threatens to derail the extensive efforts exerted by US President Trump to bring an end to the war in Gaza and establish the conditions for lasting peace," the statement reads.
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