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Kushner warns Hamas: disarm or U.S. backs Israel attack

8/19/2026

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Kushner Meets Hamas

Jared Kushner met Hamas leaders in Egypt Sunday and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel Monday.
Eight Arab and Muslim nations condemned Israel’s rejection of the roadmap, warning it could derail U.S. peace efforts.
Hamas accepted the roadmap, demanding Israel stop daily cease-fire violations as 1,260 Palestinians have died.
An Israeli airstrike on a Gaza café killed six civilians, injured fourteen, with no warning.

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Kushner Warns Hamas

Jared Kushner met Hamas leaders in Egypt on Sunday and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel on Monday.
Kushner warned Hamas that ignoring its disarmament pledge would prompt an Israeli operation and halt Gaza reconstruction aid.
Fox News correspondent Trey Yingst reported Washington is close to confirming Hamas’s roadmap progress.
An Israeli airstrike in Gaza killed six Palestinians the day after Kushner left Jerusalem.

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Kushner Demands Disarmament

In Egypt, Jared Kushner met Hamas leaders on Sunday and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel on Monday.
Kushner warned Hamas must disarm within 30-90 days or the United States will increase support for Israeli military action.
Nikolay Mladenov, Tony Blair and representatives of Egypt, Qatar and Turkey attended the Egypt meeting.
Netanyahu rejected the 15-point plan, saying Israel will not leave Gaza until Hamas is disarmed.
He announced two working groups on Hamas disarmament and Gaza sanitation and public health.

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Hamas said it would implement the 15-point roadmap only if Israel halts its daily cease-fire violations, according to Hamas officials in Cairo.
Within this story's sources, this condition appears mainly in Left-leaning coverage and receives less attention in Center- and Right-leaning coverage.

History

Historical Context

The Oslo I Accord, signed on 13 September 1993 in Washington by U.S. President Bill Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, established mutual recognition and a five-year interim self-government for the Palestinians. Secret talks in Oslo followed the 1991 Madrid Conference, and Oslo II in 1995 extended the framework. Today’s Kushner-led roadmap echoes that same phased approach.

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Kushner Meets Hamas

Jared Kushner met Hamas leaders in Egypt Sunday and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel Monday.
Eight Arab and Muslim nations condemned Israel’s rejection of the roadmap, warning it could derail U.S. peace efforts.
Hamas accepted the roadmap, demanding Israel stop daily cease-fire violations as 1,260 Palestinians have died.
An Israeli airstrike on a Gaza café killed six civilians, injured fourteen, with no warning.

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