US President Donald Trump felt the “Israelis were getting a little bit out of control” after Israel’s botched September 9 strike on Hamas’s leadership in Doha, his son-in-law and top adviser Jared Kushner said in comments broadcast Friday.

The comment came during a joint interview with US special envoy Steve Witkoff on CBS’s 60 Minutes. The interview with the two architects of the Gaza ceasefire-hostage deal will air in full on Sunday.

“I think both Jared and I felt, I just feel we felt a little bit betrayed,” said Witkoff of Israel’s strike on Hamas leaders gathered in the capital of Qatar, a key mediator in the ceasefire negotiations.

“It had a metastasizing effect because the Qataris were critical to the negotiation, as were the Egyptians and the Turks,” said Witkoff. “We had lost the confidence of the Qataris. And so Hamas went underground, and it was very, very difficult to get to them.”

Kushner, referring to Israel, said the strike led Trump to realize “that it was time to be very strong and stop them from doing things that he felt were not in their long-term interests.”

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