2026-08-17
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I think it is very much the case that the Americans are the ones who ultimately hold the cards in these talks.
With his typical kind of bombast, Trump announced this new peace plan.
It kind of highlights a sort of chicken and egg situation here.
Who will go first?
I think it's really, really far from certain that people of Gaza will be able to return home.
From The Guardians today in Focus, this is The Latest with me, Noshin Iqbal.
Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is on a mission to make peace in the Middle East.
Devika Bhatt, you're one of The Guardian's global editors.
Can you tell me, first of all, about this meeting he had with Hamas yesterday,
which, worth pointing out, it's a very rare event.
But do we know anything about what was discussed and what happened?
So we know that this is the first of two meetings, one that took place yesterday with Hamas, as you say,
and we think the other one's taking place today with Netanyahu in Jerusalem.
The one that took place yesterday was in Egypt,
and it saw Kushner meeting with the Hamas political leader, Khalil al-Hayr, as well as officials from Egypt,
Qatar and Turkey, the mediating countries, traditional mediating countries were also there.
And as you say, it's quite rare because the US and Hamas don't traditionally meet directly.
The US has in the past always described Hamas as a terrorist organisation, doesn't negotiate with terrorists.
However, it has met with Hamas directly in recent