Kushner presses Hamas as eight states ask Washington to act on Israel
Kushner told Hamas in Egypt to implement the July 30 disarmament plan; Hamas says it will act only if Israel does too. Eight states blamed Israel for rejecting the Gaza roadmap and pressed Washington to enforce the plan.
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In El-Alamein, a disarmament demand meets a reciprocal condition
In El-Alamein, Jared Kushner pressed Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya to put into effect the disarmament plan agreed on 30 July. An Arab diplomat said Hayya replied that Hamas remains committed to the plan but will take steps only if Israel meets its own obligations. That reciprocal condition is the core of the reported exchange: implementation is accepted in principle and withheld in practice until Israeli performance is visible. Board of Peace senior envoys Nickolay Mladenov and Tony Blair attended the session, with mediators from Egypt, Qatar and Turkey sitting beside them. Kushner met separately with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, while Hayya met Egypt's intelligence chief Hassan Rashad, so the day mixed a joint table with bilateral channels. On the same day the Israeli military said it had carried out air strikes in Khan Younis and Nuseirat. Kushner is expected in Israel on Monday for talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The reported sequence therefore places a political demand on Hamas beside continued military action and a near-term stop in Jerusalem on the same calendar.[1]
Eight states blame Israel and ask Washington to enforce the roadmap
A separate diplomatic track put responsibility on Israel and asked Washington to enforce the plan. Turkey, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates condemned Israel's rejection of the Gaza roadmap in a joint foreign-ministry statement. They said the rejection amounts to a direct repudiation that jeopardises implementation of the plan. The statement added that such rejection confirms Israel now bears responsibility for obstructing peace efforts in Gaza and the rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The rejected roadmap covered implementation of the Gaza plan endorsed by UN Security Council Resolution 2803 and, the signatories said, had been accepted by Palestinian factions. The eight states called on Washington to ensure Israel's full compliance with the commitments set out in the plan. That language shifts the enforcement ask toward the United States rather than treating the roadmap as a bilateral bargaining file alone. It also treats Palestinian acceptance of the roadmap as already given, so the remaining obstacle named by the signatories is Israeli rejection and the need for US pressure.[2]
Dual pressure on one plan, still without a shared sequence
Read together, the Egypt meeting and the eight-state statement describe dual pressure on the same Gaza plan. One track presses Hamas to implement the 30 July disarmament commitments, while Hamas conditions any move on Israeli performance. The other track blames Israel's rejection of the roadmap and asks Washington to force compliance with commitments already framed under UN Security Council Resolution 2803. Mediators from Egypt, Qatar and Turkey sat with Board of Peace envoys in El-Alamein even as Israeli strikes in Khan Younis and Nuseirat continued on the day of the talks. Kushner's expected Monday meeting with Netanyahu extends the same week from Hamas to the Israeli leadership. Nothing in the reporting shows either side has closed the gap on sequencing: who disarms first, who meets which obligation, and who enforces when a party refuses. What the day does show is that implementation pressure is no longer aimed at a single capital; it runs through Cairo, the eight foreign ministries, Washington and Jerusalem at once. Until that sequence is settled, the plan remains politically active and operationally incomplete.[1], [2]
