Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner say they reached the Gaza ceasefire deal after Witkoff and Hamas negotiator Khalil al-Hayya connected over shared pain. Both Witkoff and al-Hayya had lost sons.

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,

Israel has identified the bodies of two more hostages killed in the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack. Their remains were returned to Israel, where a military ceremony was planned.

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.

US Vice President JD Vance departed the US to travel to Israel on Monday evening. US Vice President JD Vance departed the US to travel to Israel on Monday evening. Vance is due to be greeted at Ben-Gurion Airport by Deputy Prime Minister, Justice Minister, and Interior Minister Yariv Levin.

Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, two of President Donald Trump’s top Middle East negotiators, sat down with 60 Minutes' Leslie Stahl this week.

Vice President JD Vance traveled to Israel as the U.S. tries to show that it will enforce a Gaza ceasefire deal that is off to a shaky start.

Hamas says it is meeting its side of the truce agreement while Israel refuses to open the crucial Rafah border crossing.