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President Trump’s son-in-law and envoy Jared Kushner met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Monday after Israel rejected a 15-point plan for Gaza promoted by President Trump’s “Board of Peace.” The proposal would have seen Hamas gradually disarm and turn over governance of Gaza to an international force in exchange for Israel’s withdrawal from the besieged territory.

Israel, supported by Kushner, is pushing for a deal whereby it “would not be obliged to conduct any of its obligations unless and until Hamas was fully disarmed,” says Middle East analyst Mouin Rabbani. “This is essentially Israel throwing a poison pill into an agreement by including conditions that can never be met.”

Rabbani argues that Jared Kushner is not a suitable negotiator because there is a “very intimate ideological, political connection between the Kushners and Israel.”

This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form.

AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!, democracynow.org, The War and Peace Report.

Palestinians in Gaza Slam Kushner’s Reconstruction Plan as Disguised Theft

President Trump’s son-in-law and envoy, Jared Kushner, met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem Monday after Israel rejected a 15-point plan for Gaza promoted by President Trump’s so-called Board of Peace. The proposal would have seen Hamas gradually disarm and turn over governance of the Gaza Strip to an international force in exchange for Israel’s withdrawal.

This is Jared Kushner speaking to Fox News.

JARED KUSHNER: We have a plan to rebuild Gaza, but we will not allow Gaza to be rebuilt until the demilitarization occurs. Nobody wants to put more money into a place that’s gone on for so long, until — if it’s just going to be taken over by terrorists or blown up again.

JARED KUSHNER: We have a plan to rebuild Gaza, but we will not allow Gaza to be rebuilt until the demilitarization occurs. Nobody wants to put more money into a place that’s gone on for so long, until — if it’s just going to be taken over by terrorists or blown up again.

AMY GOODMAN: Over the weekend, Jared Kushner held rare direct talks in Cairo with Hamas’s political chief, Khalil al-Hayya. Also joining the talks were the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Qatari, Turkish and Egyptian mediators.

Hamas officials said Israel had violated the terms of the October 2025 ceasefire and that the roadmap agreed to last month was not open to changes. Israel has been conducting near-daily attacks on the Gaza Strip despite the so-called ceasefire, killing more than 1,200 people directly.

For more, we go to Montreal, where we’re joined by Mouin Rabbani, Middle East analyst and managing editor of Jadaliyya. His forthcoming book is titled Gaza Apocalypse.

Welcome back to Democracy Now!, Mouin. Let’s begin with —

MOUIN RABBANI: Thank you. It’s good to be with you.

AMY GOODMAN: Let’s begin with what exactly these meetings have been about and what came out of them, beginning with who Jared Kushner is — again, is not officially a government employee.

MOUIN RABBANI: Yes, I think, as Maggie Haberman was just informing us, he’s actually not part of the government. He has no official role, no official position, and, therefore, is essentially accountable only to his father-in-law, Donald Trump.

He’s also someone who is deeply invested, both literally and figuratively, in the Middle East. He relies, to a very large........

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