Israel, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff
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On Tuesday, several recently freed Israeli hostages met in Tel Aviv with US Special Envoy for Peace Missions Steve Witkoff and former senior White House adviser Jared Kushner. On Tuesday, several recently freed Israeli hostages met in Tel Aviv with US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and former senior White House adviser Jared Kushner,
Addressing their business in the Middle East, Kushner said: "What people call conflicts of interests, Steve and I call experience."
President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and US Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff — the pair largely responsible for Trump’s Israel-Hamas peace deal — provided rare insight into how the administration is trying to disarm the terror group and reestablish secure leadership in war-torn Gaza.
During the gathering, the former hostages urge Witkoff and Kushner to help bring back all 15 bodies of hostages remaining in Gaza, while Witkoff reaffirms the United States’ steadfast dedication to the mission and expresses his confidence in the ability to carry it out, according to the Hostages Forum statement from the meeting.
Kushner, who also proposed an Israeli-Palestinian peace plan during Trump’s first term, described his reaction to viewing the devastation in Gaza, where he visited after the ceasefire took effect and saw Palestinians returning to their destroyed homes. “It’s very sad, because you think to yourself, they really have nowhere else to go,” he said.
Lead U.S. negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner told CBS's "60 Minutes" that Israel launching air strikes at Hamas negotiators in Qatar, and then President Trump strongly encouraging them to apologize and promise never to do it again,
In the clip, 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl said that she heard that Trump was furious about the strike. Neither Witkoff nor Kushner denied this.
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Jared Kushner Tells 60 Minutes The Israelis Needed ‘Us to Stop Them’ From Hurting Themselves: ‘We Felt a Little Bit Betrayed’
Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, two of President Donald Trump’s top Middle East negotiators, sat down with 60 Minutes' Leslie Stahl this week.