Arab allies join Trump in calling for Israel to drop opposition to US-backed Gaza peace plan

Four major Arab nations and three other Muslim-majority powers are joining with President Trump to push for a US-backed Gaza peace deal — even as Israel rejected the plan and carried on with airstrikes in the Palestinian enclave. Special envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner met with Hamas officials and mediators in the latest talks to salvage the deal, a Middle East diplomat told Reuters. Kushner and Trump’s Board of Peace envoy for Gaza, Nickolay Mladenov, are scheduled to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday in an attempt to get the Jewish state on board after it rejected the president’s plan as “unacceptable.” 4 Jared Kushner, (second from the left) son-in-law of the US president, met with Egyptian leaders on Sunday to discuss the peace talks between Israel and Hamas. Egyptian President Office/APAImages/Shutterstock 4 Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected President Trump’s roadmap to peace. AFP via Getty Images Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and UAE joined Turkey, Pakistan and Indonesia — three major Muslim-majority nations — on Sunday to condemn Israel’s opposition to Trump’s peace plan, warning that it could sink the deal and reignite the conflict in war-torn Gaza. Netanyahu said last week that Israel fully rejects the 15-point peace plan and said his forces would not withdraw from Gaza until Hamas no longer poses a threat to his country. According to Trump, the plan involves terror group Hamas laying down its weapons in exchange for Israel withdrawing from the Gaza Strip. Explore More Jared Kushner to visit Board of Peace officials in Middle East next week to discuss Gaza deal Tehran is losing its grip on Hormuz, and with it all its leverage New York Magazine’s evil ‘Habibi City’ cover sends a message: Jews aren’t welcome in Mamdani’s NYC Since then, Israel has resumed its regular airstrikes in Gaza to take out Hamas military targets, with a recent attack hitting an apartment building in the Nuseirat refugee camp, wounding several people, medics said. Hamas, meanwhile, has said it would only disarm once Israel ends all strikes on the enclave and withdraws its forces, which currently occupy more than half of the Gaza Strip. 4 Israel carried on with airstrikes in Gaza, with a family sitting in a destroyed residential building on Saturday. REUTERS 4 A displaced Palestinian youth inspects the damage at the site of an alleged Israeli strike on a tent in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Sunday. AFP via Getty Images The disagreement left Trump’s initial 20-point peace plan in limbo since it was announced last year, with the president putting forth a 15-point plan last month to try and secure a breakthrough. As Israel continues its attacks in Gaza, Hamas officials have called on the US to pressure Netanyahu to follow Trump’s roadmap and end the war, which is approaching its fourth year. At least 1,250 Palestinians have been killed since last year’s peace deal was announced, most of them civilians, according to human rights groups and medics. Four Israeli soldiers were also killed in skirmishes with Gaza militants in the same period, according to Israeli officials. With Post Wires