Overview
- U.S. envoy Jared Kushner met Hamas leader Khalil al‑Hayya in Egypt and then Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Monday in a direct push to advance a U.S.‑backed 15‑point Gaza roadmap.
- The meetings produced agreements to create two working groups on demilitarisation and on sanitation, clean water and public health, but they ended without a political breakthrough on the core sequencing dispute.
- Israel insisted on full, verifiable disarmament of Hamas before any troop withdrawals, and Netanyahu publicly rejected the roadmap while facing pressure from hardline ministers and an October election.
- Hamas reaffirmed its acceptance of the roadmap but conditioned implementation on Israel first halting attacks and withdrawing forces so disarmament steps can be implemented and verified.
- Because verification and sequencing remain unresolved, reconstruction, the proposed international stabilisation force and a Palestinian technocratic administration are on hold, prolonging urgent humanitarian needs in Gaza where more than 1,260 Palestinians have been reported killed since the ceasefire.