The official Israeli Broadcasting Corporation said on Monday: "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's meeting with Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of the US president, began at the Prime Minister's office in West Jerusalem."
Netanyahu's office released a photo of him meeting Kushner.
On Sunday evening, Channel 12 reported that Kushner had arrived in Israel "to discuss (continuing) the implementation of the Gaza agreement."
Kushner played a pivotal role, along with US Middle East envoy Steve Wittkopf, in reaching an agreement to implement US President Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza.
According to this plan, a ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel came into effect on October 10, following a two-year war of extermination waged by the latter with American support on Gaza.
Israel violates the agreement daily, resulting in hundreds of Palestinian martyrs and wounded, as well as preventing the entry of sufficient food and medical supplies into Gaza, where about 2.4 million Palestinians live.
Hamas fighters
In the same context, the Israeli government spokesman said on Monday that any decision regarding Hamas fighters holed up in tunnels would be made in cooperation with the Trump administration.
He added that Jared Kushner and Netanyahu discussed disarming Hamas, clearing Gaza of weapons, and ensuring that Hamas would have no role in Gaza again.
On Saturday, Channel 12 reported that Kushner would discuss with Netanyahu the start of the second phase of the Gaza agreement and the issue of Hamas members stranded in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
She said at the time that Washington was proposing that the handover of the body of Israeli officer Hadar Goldin to Israel be followed by allowing Hamas members (about 200 fighters) to pass to the area under the movement's control, or to an unspecified country, after they surrender their weapons.
In contrast, Tel Aviv is proposing "the surrender of Hamas fighters so that they can be arrested and transferred into Israel for investigation, as a compromise between the American demand and Israeli security considerations," according to the broadcasting authority.
However, the Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, held Israel responsible in a statement on Sunday for any clash with the movement's fighters trapped in Rafah, and stressed that "the principle of surrender and handing oneself over to the enemy does not exist in the Qassam dictionary."
Indeed, Hamas handed over on Sunday the remains of Goldin, who was killed in Gaza in August 2014, but Israel still insists on not allowing Hamas members to leave Rafah safely.
The Israeli genocide in Gaza left 69,176 Palestinian martyrs and 170,690 wounded, most of them children and women, and caused destruction to 90 percent of the civilian infrastructure, with reconstruction costs estimated by the United Nations at about $70 billion.