US President Donald Trump felt the “Israelis were getting a little bit out of control” after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a strike on Hamas’s leaders in Doha last month, his son-in-law and top adviser Jared Kushner says.
“I think both Jared and I felt, I just feel we felt a little bit betrayed,” US special envoy Steve Witkoff tells CBS’s 60 Minutes in a joint interview with Kushner, which will air in full on Sunday.
“It had a metastasizing effect because the Qataris were critical to the negotiation, as were the Egyptians and the Turks,” Witkoff continues. “We had lost the confidence of the Qataris. And so Hamas went underground, and it was very, very difficult to get to them.”
Kushner says that the strike led Trump to realize “that it was time to be very strong and stop them from doing things that he felt were not in their long-term interests.”
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