Jared Kushner: Hamas said all the right things on Board of Peace Gaza plan but IDF wont leave until terror group disarms

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner met for four hours with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, urging him to drop his opposition to the Trump-chaired Board of Peace’s 15-point plan that calls for Hamas to disarm in exchange for a full Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.“I mean, [Hamas] said all the right things, but, obviously, it’s very, very hard to trust a terrorist organization that committed these terrible atrocities.But we had a very cordial meeting.

And they said all the right things,” Kushner, Trump’s special envoy for peace, told Fox News’ Trey Yingst after talks Sunday with Hamas leaders, followed by the Netanyahu meeting.“And so we’re going to give them a chance to perform, but it’s going to have to be based on actions and steps, and I hope it will be true.”Kushner added that Israel would be entitled to “finish the job” in Gaza if Hamas reneges on its pledge to warehouse weapons and transfer control of the enclave to a third party, allowing for the 2 million-person region’s reconstruction.The US plan would transfer governance of the war-torn territory to a technocratic civilian government that was announced last year.Netanyahu opposed the plan for fear of allowing a resurgence of the terrorist group’s power after it was hemmed into urban areas following two years of fighting sparked by the massacre of about 1,200 people across southern Israel on Oct.7, 2023.Kushner added to Yingst that he and Netanyahu “had a very, very good meeting.”“I think there were some valid concerns that they raised that we were able to address.

And we were able to go through some of the misunderstandings and misinformation that’s been out about it,” he said of the peace plan.“We’re very committed to the fact that we have a plan to rebuild Gaza, but we will not allow Gaza to be rebuilt until the demilitarization occurs.”A Board of Peace official confirmed to The Post in a statement Monday that Netanya...