{"id":15211,"date":"2026-08-17T17:21:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T14:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/?p=15211"},"modified":"2026-08-17T17:21:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T14:21:57","slug":"tony-blair-and-jared-kushner-meet-with-hamas-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/tony-blair-and-jared-kushner-meet-with-hamas-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Blair and Jared Kushner Meet with Hamas Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The high-level discussions brought together <strong>Sir Tony Blair<\/strong>, <strong>Kushner<\/strong>, and <strong>Nickolay Mladenov<\/strong>, Board of Peace high representative, with <strong>Khalil al-Hayya<\/strong>, a key Hamas figure. The meeting focused on advancing President Donald Trump&#8217;s Gaza peace framework, which has stalled in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli forces have resumed airstrikes in Gaza after a brief reduction in military operations earlier this month, raising concerns about the viability of the October ceasefire agreement designed to end hostilities and facilitate reconstruction of the war-torn territory.<\/p>\n<h2>Hamas Pledges Disarmament Commitment<\/h2>\n<p>During the two-hour session, Hamas officials reiterated their willingness to disarm and transfer control of Gaza to a Palestinian technocratic government, in accordance with the second phase of Trump&#8217;s peace plan.<\/p>\n<p>A source familiar with the talks revealed that Kushner made clear American expectations remain demanding. <em>The bar is high because the Israeli side doesn&#8217;t trust them to actually disarm<\/em>, Kushner reportedly told Hamas leaders, emphasizing that disarmament terms are non-negotiable but that Washington would pressure Israel to reciprocate if Hamas demonstrates genuine progress.<\/p>\n<h2>Dispute Over Terminology<\/h2>\n<p>Hamas has resisted the term &#8220;disarmament&#8221; itself, instead characterizing the arrangement as transferring weapons to storage under a US-backed Palestinian technocratic administration. This semantic dispute reflects deeper tensions over implementation of the peace framework.<\/p>\n<p>Kushner also held separate discussions with Egyptian President <strong>Abdel Fattah al-Sisi<\/strong> as part of the diplomatic initiative, with Cairo serving as a neutral venue for the sensitive negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>The involvement of Blair, a veteran Middle East peace negotiator, alongside Kushner signals the high-stakes nature of salvaging the Trump plan amid renewed violence and mutual distrust between Israeli and Palestinian factions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><em>With information from <a href=\"https:\/\/gbnews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GB News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Blair and Jared Kushner met Hamas leaders in Cairo to advance Trump&#8217;s stalled Gaza peace plan, with Hamas pledging disarmament amid renewed Israeli airstrikes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":15210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[11833,545,1517,792,309,9812,1246],"nfg_topic":[135],"class_list":["post-15211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cairo","tag-egypt","tag-gaza","tag-hamas","tag-jared-kushner","tag-khalil-al-hayya","tag-tony-blair","nfg_topic-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15216,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15211\/revisions\/15216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15211"},{"taxonomy":"nfg_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsfire.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/nfg_topic?post=15211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}