Kushner to meet Netanyahu after talks with Hamas on Gaza plan

JERUSALEM: President Donald Trump's envoy Jared Kushner is to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday (Aug 17) after holding talks with Hamas leaders, as he tries to revive a Gaza peace plan that Israel has so far rejected.The meeting comes two weeks after the Palestinian militant group endorsed the latest stage of Trump's Gaza plan, which Netanyahu has refused to support, insisting any settlement must ensure the group is "genuinely disarmed".Kushner - Trump's son-in-law - met Hamas' new leader Khalil al-Hayya in the Egyptian Mediterranean city of El-Alamein on Sunday, the latest of once-unthinkable talks between the United States and a group it classifies as terrorists, sources with knowledge of the talks told AFP.Kushner demanded that Hamas verify that it is giving up it