Kushner: ‘Everyone believes it is possible to create something better in Gaza’

Trump Administration adviser Jared Kushner, speaking alongside Vice President JD Vance and special envoy Steve Witkoff at a press conference in southern Israel, says negotiators are “currently making progress” on securing the return of the remaining bodies of deceased hostages.

He hails “surprisingly strong coordination between the United Nations and Israel” on getting humanitarian aid into Gaza. And he says the parties are trying to “find out how we can do it better,” so that the aid “reaches the people in Gaza and doesn’t go to the wrong hands there.”

He says that the new Civil Military Coordination Center, where they are speaking, is central to the wider mission as regards “what happens next in Gaza. And there’s a lot of great things happening here… The most important thing here is to figure out how you really get a good deconfliction coordination center. This really has been a startup. There’s been a lot that’s been done.”

He also says he wants “to echo what the vice president said about how a lot of people are getting a little hysterical about different incursions, one way or the other.” The fact is, however, that “both sides are transitioning from two years of very intense warfare to, now, a peacetime posture.” The goal, he adds, is “to try to build that deconflection mechanism, in order to make sure that we can get to a proper de-escalation.”

Noting that various flags have been put up at the center, Kushner says they are “not fully representative of the countries that are here. It’s happening very rapidly that people are agreeing to come on board, agreeing to help. People really want to be a part of this, and it’s just happening very, very quickly.”

Concludes Kushner: “Everyone believes that it is possible to create something better in Gaza, and we have to believe it, we have to work hard for it. And if we all work hard to do that, then I do believe a great outcome is possible.”