Netanyahu told Kushner targeted killings in Gaza will continue, an Israeli channel reports
The envoy selling the roadmap and the prime minister being sold it are described as parting without agreement on the one practice that keeps the toll rising through the truce.
The Israeli broadcaster Channel 15 reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the US envoy Jared Kushner the army would go on carrying out targeted killings in the Gaza Strip, and that Kushner objected to their continuing.
A source cited by the channel put the outcome plainly: "There was no agreement between Netanyahu and Kushner on the continuation of the assassination operations." The same source said the prime minister was explicit that the killings would carry on, and that the envoy said he was against them.
The exchange is reported to have taken place at Monday's meeting in Israel, which Nickolay Mladenov, the Board of Peace's high representative for Gaza, also attended. Kushner had flown in on Sunday evening from Egypt, where he had seen President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and a Hamas delegation headed by Khalil al-Hayya. Neither Kushner's office nor Netanyahu's has commented on the account.
If the report holds, it locates the dispute somewhere more awkward than the disarmament clauses that have stalled the roadmap in public. Those clauses are a question of sequence: the Board of Peace text issued on 31 July asks for Hamas to give up weapons gradually while Israeli forces withdraw in parallel, Netanyahu wants the disarmament completed first, and Hamas will hand over weapons only alongside a phased withdrawal. Killings during a ceasefire are not a matter of sequence at all.
They are also the mechanism behind the numbers the mediators are quoting back to each other. Gaza's Health Ministry counts 1,262 people killed and 4,168 wounded in violations of the ceasefire that took effect on 10 October 2025 — a toll accumulated in the months when the shooting was supposed to have stopped.
That is the gap an envoy is trying to close. Kushner is asking Hamas for steps that can be checked while the government he is asking it to trust is described, in the same week, as telling him the operations will not stop.