Disarmament of Hamas could begin in a month: Kushner
• US, Israel agree American general will oversee weapons removal before troop withdrawal, reconstruction • US envoy presses Hamas to abandon arms, governing role; Palestinian group wants to keep pressure on Israeli PM JERUSALEM: Progress towards disarming Hamas and implementing a US-backed peace plan for the Gaza Strip could begin within a month, White House envoy Jared Kushner said on Monday following high-level meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Speaking after two days of diplomacy across the region, Kushner expressed cautious optimism that initial steps to demilitarise the enclave could start taking shape soon despite deep scepticism and lingering impasses. “We could be seeing progress… in as little as 30 days, hopefully starting to take some of the weapons out, and hopefully, you know, filling in some of the tunnels as well,” Kushner told Fox News while in Tel Aviv. The projected timeline followed talks in Jerusalem between Kushner and Netanyahu, during which the two sides agreed that an American general would oversee and verify the decommissioning of weapons held by Hamas. However, Netanyahu remained firm that Israeli forces would not withdraw from the Ga
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