Hamas leaders have met in Egypt with US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and Middle East envoy, Jared Kushner, who is seeking to push a peace plan for Gaza that Israel has rejected.

A Palestinian source told Global News Insight on Sunday that Hamas’s leadership briefed Kushner on Israel’s ceasefire violations in Gaza. The source also stated that Kushner said the US rejects any plans to displace Gaza’s residents.

Another official familiar with the matter told Global News Insight that Hamas and Kushner met in the town of Alamein “with the objective of translating the roadmap’s obligations into concrete, verifiable steps”.

“These are actions that maintain the ceasefire; begin to transfer all governing responsibilities to the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza; ensure that Hamas has no role in Gaza’s future administration,” the source, who is neither a member of the Board of Peace nor a US official, said.

“There can be no ambiguity: Hamas must relinquish governing authority and all weapons and military infrastructure. And Gaza can never again be a source of terror for Israel,” the source added.

Hamas political leader Khalil al-Hayya attended the talks. Also present were Egyptian intelligence chief Hassan Rashad, Qatari diplomat Ali Al Thawadi and a senior Turkish official, US outlet Axios reported. Board of Peace envoy Nickolay Mladenov and former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, who is also a member of the board, joined Kushner in the meeting.

Kushner’s visits to Israel and Egypt are an effort to narrow differences over Trump’s latest roadmap for Gaza, which Netanyahu said last week was “unacceptable” for Israel.

‘Compel’ Israel to accept Gaza plan

In a statement issued on Sunday, Hamas said it emphasised its “acceptance” of the roadmap for the second phase of Trump’s plan during the meeting with “delegations from the mediators and guarantors of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza”.

“Hamas and the resistance fully adhered to the first phase of the ceasefire agreement,” it said. Israel, however, “failed to implement this phase, escalating its military operations on the ground and deepening the humanitarian catastrophe, and has explicitly rejected the roadmap”, Hamas added.

Hamas said “it called upon the mediating parties and the Board of Peace to fulfil their responsibilities and compel the [Israeli] occupation to implement all its obligations in the first phase, end all violations, halt the killings and incursions, agree to the roadmap for the second phase of President Trump’s plan and begin developing a timetable for its implementation”.

The US has for years refused contact with Hamas, which it classifies as a “terrorist organisation”. But the Trump administration has increasingly been comfortable with direct contact in hopes of ending Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.

Hamas’s al-Hayya also met separately with Egypt’s Rashad on Sunday, according to the Reuters news agency.

Kushner, meanwhile, met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi after meeting with Hamas. The Egyptian president’s office said that aside from Gaza, the two discussed Egypt-US relations. El-Sisi highlighted the strategic partnership between the two countries and praised their ongoing cooperation across shared interests. Kushner, in turn, commended the close coordination with Egypt and expressed appreciation for el-Sisi’s role in advancing regional peace and stability.

Israeli strikes continue

On Sunday, the foreign ministers of eight nations – Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Jordan, Indonesia, Pakistan, Turkiye and Saudi Arabia – condemned Israel’s rejection of the roadmap for Gaza, branding it a “direct assault” on US-led peace efforts and Palestinian statehood.

Warning that Israel now bears full responsibility for derailing the plan, they urged Washington to step in and enforce compliance, while insisting that only a two-state solution on 1967 borders can bring lasting stability and calling on the Board of Peace to move swiftly against any further obstruction.

A senior Israeli official said that Kushner and Board of Peace envoy Mladenov were scheduled to meet with Netanyahu on Monday. The official said Israel was concerned about Washington’s demand to end targeted assassinations of Hamas fighters in Gaza.

Trump announced the roadmap last month, saying it was a breakthrough in his plan to end the war, to which both Israel and Hamas had agreed.

The roadmap calls for the immediate cessation of military operations in the enclave. It foresees Hamas disarming as Israeli troops withdraw, and Gaza is rebuilt under a new civilian Palestinian administration.

Hamas said it had agreed to the plan to avoid a resumption of the war, but added that implementation of the deal would depend on Israel first meeting its own commitments, including withdrawing its forces and halting attacks.

After scaling back its attacks in the besieged enclave earlier this month, Israel has resumed air strikes on Gaza in the past few days, despite an October 2025 “ceasefire”.

At least five Palestinians were injured on Sunday after an Israeli strike hit a tent encampment in Khan Younis, medics said. A separate air strike hit an apartment in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, wounding several people, medics said.

Israeli fire has killed more than 1,250 Palestinians in Gaza since the “ceasefire” took effect, according to Palestinian official sources. The death toll since Israel began its genocidal war on Gaza in October 2023 is now above 73,300.