{"id":94682,"date":"2026-09-08T08:03:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T13:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/?p=94682"},"modified":"2026-09-08T08:03:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T13:03:18","slug":"kushner-demilitarizing-gaza-not-going-to-be-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/kushner-demilitarizing-gaza-not-going-to-be-easy\/","title":{"rendered":"Kushner: Demilitarizing Gaza \u2018not going to be easy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By JNS STAFF<\/p>\n<div class=\"ArticlePage-dateAndSource\">(<em>JNS.org<\/em>) \u2013&nbsp;Jared Kushner, U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s son-in-law and peace envoy, said on Sunday that Washington was only beginning to understand what is required to demilitarize the Gaza Strip, calling it \u201cbeyond your comprehension.\u201d<\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_94683\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Kushner-Vance.webp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94683\" class=\"wp-image-94683 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Kushner-Vance-300x169.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Kushner-Vance-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Kushner-Vance-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Kushner-Vance.webp 1000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/169;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-94683\" class=\"wp-image-94683 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Kushner-Vance-300x169.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Kushner-Vance-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Kushner-Vance-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Kushner-Vance.webp 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-94683\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">White House advisor Jared Kushner speaks to the media, alongside U.S. Vice President JD Vance, near Kiryat Gat in southern Israel on Oct. 21, 2025. (Photo by Chaim Goldberg\/Flash90)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cDemilitarizing it is not going to be easy,\u201d Kushner said at a press conference in Kyiv, where he appeared alongside U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n<p>The United States worked with Hamas for more than four months, he said, resulting in the terrorist group committing to lay down its weapons. \u201cYou can\u2019t go in if there\u2019s guns,\u201d Kushner said. \u201cYou can\u2019t send a government in to a place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a new government, a Palestinian technocratic government that\u2019s neither the [Palestinian Authority] nor Hamas, that\u2019s built a plan to go forward,\u201d the envoy said.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. and Israel agree on the \u201cend state\u201d for Gaza, Kushner said, but continue to work through \u201csome political issues\u201d due to the upcoming Israeli election. \u201cThey just have a crazy election, and that makes them a little irrational in certain regards,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Gaza Strip was \u201cbuilt by NGOs and terrorists, and it\u2019s been a dystopian place for a long time,\u201d Kushner said. \u201cGaza has not worked for a very, very long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has flooded Gaza with aid since the October 2025 ceasefire and changed how it is distributed, and the war-torn enclave now has one of the lowest malnutrition rates in the world, Kushner continued.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations had previously been spending three times as much per person on aid in Gaza as it did in Syria, he noted, attributing the gap to \u201cthis whole industrial complex of aid\u201d and terrorist groups stealing shipments.<\/p>\n<p>The United States now has a plan to rebuild Gaza, drawn up by a team assembled under Trump and his Board of Peace, he said, adding that \u201cthese things take time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kushner&nbsp;<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/news\/israel-news\/kushner-gaza-demilitarization-could-begin-within-30-days\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">said on Aug. 17<\/a><\/span>&nbsp;that progress toward Gaza\u2019s demilitarization could begin within 30 days, following a nearly four-hour meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n<p>Kushner told&nbsp;<i>Fox News<\/i>&nbsp;that Washington would not support rebuilding Gaza before demilitarization, adding that the administration had addressed Israeli concerns about the Board of Peace roadmap and clarified that Israel\u2019s right to act against imminent threats would not be restricted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe could be seeing progress in as little 30 days, hopefully on starting to take some of the weapons out, and hopefully filling in some of the tunnels as well in the next 60 to 90 days,\u201d Kushner said, adding that progress would require cooperation from both sides.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Hamas continues to threaten Israeli forces positioned in the Strip. The Israel Defense Forces overnight Sunday struck Hamas terrorist infrastructure in the Gaza Strip after an explosive device targeted an IDF vehicle, the military said on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>An IDF engineering vehicle set off the Hamas explosive on Sunday in the Yellow Line buffer area in the northern Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n<p>No Israelis were injured in the blast, which the IDF said was a blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement.<\/p>\n<p>The targeted Hamas sites had been used to prepare attacks on Israeli soldiers and civilians, the IDF added, noting that Southern Command forces remain deployed in the sector in accordance with the ceasefire and will continue operations to remove imminent threats.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu&nbsp;<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/news\/israel-news\/in-gaza-netanyahu-says-idf-will-retain-yellow-line-positions\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">visited<\/a><\/span>&nbsp;an Israel Defense Forces outpost near the Yellow Line demarcation boundary on Sept. 2, according to the Prime Minister\u2019s Office. He said Israel would maintain control of the area as it works to complete the disarmament of Hamas and the demilitarization of Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe control the territory. We are not withdrawing. We are staying on this line,\u201d Netanyahu said during the visit, alongside IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir and senior Southern Command officers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe control 60% of the Strip, and our reach extends further, because we are eliminating the terrorists who threaten us. We do so day in and day out,\u201d Netanyahu said, adding, \u201cYesterday, we got Hamas\u2019s Shin Bet chief. We will surely learn some things.\u201d Shin Bet is a Hebrew acronym for the Israel Security Agency, Israel\u2019s equivalent to the American FBI.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu on Sept. 1&nbsp;<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.jns.org\/news\/israel-news\/katz-top-hamas-terrorist-captured-in-gaza\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">extended his congratulations<\/a><\/span>&nbsp;to the country\u2019s security forces on the capture of the head of Hamas\u2019s internal security apparatus, Muein al-Arabid, earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p>Describing him as \u201cone of the most senior Hamas leaders,\u201d the prime minister said al-Arabid had been \u201cresponsible for hiding and transporting our abductees [and] hiding senior Hamas officials,\u201d referring to those taken captive by the terrorist group during its Oct. 7, 2023, invasion of southern Israel.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, al-Arabid was involved in efforts to restore Hamas\u2019s control in Gaza and to carry out attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians, Netanyahu said. \u201cMy directive is clear: The State of Israel will continue to persecute all Hamas leaders and all those who took part in the Oct. 7 massacre,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Kushner%3A%20Demilitarizing%20Gaza%20%E2%80%98not%20going%20to%20be%20easy%E2%80%99\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":94683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[663,8781,4072,8790,8795,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94684,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94682\/revisions\/94684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}