Trump’s Son-in-Law Jared Kushner Holds High-Stakes Talks with Netanyahu on Gaza Ceasefire
Trump envoy meets Netanyahu as ceasefire’s dramatic Phase 2 looms
In a high-stakes closed-door meeting in Jerusalem on Monday, Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s powerful son-in-law and Middle East architect, sat down with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to hammer out the explosive next phase of the Gaza ceasefire, just hours after Israel returned another 15 Palestinian bodies and received the long-lost remains of Lt. Hadar Goldin, killed in 2014.
Behind the scenes, sources reveal Kushner is aggressively pushing a controversial new deal that would grant safe passage to 150–200 trapped Hamas fighters currently surrounded in the Israeli-controlled “yellow zone” in exchange for them surrendering their weapons, a move that could either cement the fragile truce or blow it apart entirely if hardliners on either side revolt.
As Phase One winds down, with over 1 million Palestinians finally receiving food and winter supplies for the first time in months, the world is waiting for Phase Two: the creation of a new Gaza governing authority and the deployment of an international stabilisation force, both still shrouded in uncertainty while Netanyahu faces mounting domestic pressure over the army’s damning new report admitting catastrophic intelligence and operational failures on October 7, 2023.
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In Gaza, heartbreaking scenes continue at Nasser Hospital as desperate families, including Shaima Abu Ouda whose 15-year-old son Rayyan vanished near the border two years ago, sift through photos of the latest returned remains, only 91 of the 315 bodies handed over so far have been identified because DNA kits are still blocked from entering the Strip.
Meanwhile, in the occupied West Bank, residents of the tiny Bedouin village of Umm al-Khair, made famous by the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land,” spent Monday night preparing for Israeli bulldozers scheduled to arrive Tuesday to demolish 14 homes and the community centre, the latest chapter in decades of displacement that began when they were forced from the Negev in 1948, proving that while Gaza catches its breath, the war on Palestinian existence rages on.
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