Kushner meets with Netanyahu after rare Hamas talks over stalled Gaza plan

President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and envoy Jared Kushner met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday after rare talks with the leader of Hamas, in a new push to revive the peace plan for Gaza that Israel has rejected.

President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and envoy Jared Kushner met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday after rare talks with the leader of Hamas, in a new push to revive the peace plan for Gaza that Israel has rejected.

As the U.S. tries to advance the fragile ceasefire brokered in October, Kushner held talks with a delegation led by Hamas chief Khalil al-Hayya in Cairo on Sunday, a Hamas official briefed on the matter told NBC News.

Details of Kushner’s meeting with Netanyahu were not immediately clear, but an Israeli government official told NBC News just after around 9 a.m. ET that the meeting had concluded.

The U.S. and Israel have shown rare public divisions over the road map for the future of the Palestinian enclave, as well as the Israeli government’s approach to a mounting crisis in the occupied West Bank.

Add to GoogleU.S. Ambassador Huckabee condemns ‘Israeli terrorists’ for siege of West Bank homes04:03The renewed diplomatic effort comes as Netanyahu faces growing domestic pressure ahead of October elections, including from the far-right faction upon which his fragile coalition government relies.