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Kushner and Netanyahu agree Gaza working groups for Hamas disarmament

Two teams will oversee demilitarisation and reconstruction as Israel and Hamas disagree on conditions

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Prim-ministrul Benjamin Netanyahu la ședința de guvern, alături de trimisul special al președintelui Trump pentru Orientul Mijlociu, Steve Witkoff (stânga), și de ginerele președintelui, Jared Kushner (dreapta), pe 10 octombrie 2025. Foto: Profimedia

What this story says

  • Jared Kushner and Benjamin Netanyahu agreed on Monday to set up two working groups, one for Hamas disarmament and one for Gaza sanitation and reconstruction.
  • An Israeli official said a US general would supervise the verification of Hamas’s disarmament, a condition Israel has tied to any withdrawal from Gaza.
  • Hamas says it will implement the plan only after Israel fulfils its commitments, including withdrawing forces and halting attacks.
  • Netanyahu has publicly rejected the 15-point plan, while the Board of Peace says the groups mark progress toward implementation.

Who covered it

Left 26%(20)Centre 30%(23)Right 44%(34)

Percentages are shares of the 77 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 41 of the 118 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .

Trust

78/100

Craft

95/100

Hype

15/100

118 sources · methodology

Missing from the left

Only 20 of the 77 outlets with a published leaning rating that ran this story are rated left.

A reader who follows the left would not have seen this. We report the absence rather than explain it: outlets choose what to cover for many reasons, and we have no evidence about which one applies here.

Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of US President Donald Trump, met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Monday to discuss a Gaza peace plan. The meeting included Nickolay Mladenov, director-general of the Board of Peace, and former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair. The parties agreed to establish two working groups: one to oversee the disarmament of Hamas and another to address Gaza’s sanitation and reconstruction.

An Israeli official told outlets that a US general would supervise the verification of Hamas’s disarmament. The official said Israel would not withdraw from Gaza until the process was complete. Hamas has said it will only implement the plan after Israel fulfils its commitments, including withdrawing its forces and halting attacks. Netanyahu has publicly rejected the 15-point plan, which was brokered by the US-led Board of Peace.

Where the reports disagree

Al Jazeera reports that Netanyahu has publicly rejected the 15-point plan. Digi24 quotes a Board of Peace official saying the meeting with Netanyahu was “long, in-depth and very productive” and that the parties agreed on a way forward. The reports do not reconcile the two claims.

What the coverage left out

None of the right-rated digests mention that Hamas has said it will only implement the plan after Israel fulfils its commitments. The left-rated report and the centre-rated report both carried the condition. The centre-rated report also omitted that Netanyahu has publicly rejected the 15-point plan.

Coverage settled. We checked this 8 times and stopped on 22 Aug 2026, 22:45. The figures above are what it finished at.

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Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump's envoy and son-in-law, meets with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi [Egyptian Presidency/Anadolu/Getty Images]
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How each side covered it

Our own reading of the reporting listed below, written from the outlets’ articles rather than quoted from them. The reasoning is set out on our methodology page.

Left

20 rated outlets

  • Left-rated outlets led on Hamas’s position and Israel’s rejection of the US plan. Al Jazeera and CGTN reported that Hamas accepted the 15-point roadmap but conditioned implementation on Israel withdrawing forces and halting attacks. Al Jazeera added that Kushner met Hamas’s political leadership, a detail absent from other digests.
  • The reports carried Netanyahu’s refusal to withdraw Israeli forces until Hamas disarmed. Al Jazeera, The Hindu, ABC Australia, Le Monde, The Korea Times, La Vanguardia, La Presse, Telegrafi, and rbc.ua included this condition. Al Jazeera and CGTN quoted Hamas sources; the other digests cited unnamed Israeli officials or did not name sources.
  • Al Jazeera’s full report named the Board of Peace’s chair as Donald Trump and stated it had no Palestinian representatives. It also gave the Gaza death toll since the 2025 ceasefire as 1,260 Palestinians. These figures did not appear in the digests of the other outlets.

Centre

23 rated outlets

  • Digi24’s report led on the agreement between Kushner and Netanyahu on a “way forward” for Gaza. It quoted a Board of Peace official describing the meeting as “long, in-depth and very productive”. The report said the working groups would focus on translating Hamas’s disarmament obligations into “concrete, verifiable steps” and ensuring Hamas would have no role in Gaza’s future governance. It also mentioned Kushner’s meeting with Hamas leaders in Egypt the previous day.

Right

34 rated outlets

  • The seven right-rated digests led on the establishment of the two working groups. Six of them named the groups’ purposes: one for Hamas disarmament and one for Gaza sanitation and reconstruction. Four digests reported that a US general would supervise the disarmament. Three digests quoted an Israeli official saying there would be no Israeli withdrawal from Gaza until Hamas disarmed. None of the digests mentioned Hamas’s condition that Israel must first withdraw its forces.

Questions about this coverage

How did the left and right cover Kushner and Netanyahu agree Gaza working groups for Hamas disarmament?
Of the 77 outlets on this story carrying a published leaning rating, 26% are rated left, 30% are rated centre, 44% are rated right. Those percentages are shares of the rated outlets, not of every outlet that ran it, which was 118. The sections above set out what each side emphasised, in its own terms.
Is Kushner and Netanyahu agree Gaza working groups for Hamas disarmament left or right?
Neither side dominates it. Of the 77 rated outlets on this story, 26% are rated left, 30% are rated centre, 44% are rated right, and no side holds the 70% this site would want before calling a field one-sided. A story is not left or right in any case; the outlets that carried it are what carry ratings.
Is the coverage of Kushner and Netanyahu agree Gaza working groups for Hamas disarmament biased?
Kushner and Netanyahu agree Gaza working groups for Hamas disarmament is one event reported by 118 outlets, and this page does not rate the story as biased or unbiased. What it publishes is the spread: which outlets ran it, where named rating organisations place each of them on the spectrum, and what each side chose to lead with. A leaning rating describes an outlet's record over time, not this article, and the two should not be run together.
Which side is not reporting Kushner and Netanyahu agree Gaza working groups for Hamas disarmament?
When we first saw this story, outlets rated left had barely covered it. Coverage accretes for hours after an event, so that is where to look rather than a verdict — the split above is the current count, and it is the one to read.
Which outlets covered Kushner and Netanyahu agree Gaza working groups for Hamas disarmament?
118 that we know of, every one of them listed further up this page with a link to its own report and to what we hold on the publisher. Nothing here is a summary of somebody else's summary: the outlets are named so the original reporting can be read.
What are the two working groups for?
The working groups are to oversee Hamas disarmament and Gaza’s sanitation and reconstruction. The disarmament group will focus on verifying that Hamas hands over its weapons, while the other will address public health and rebuilding infrastructure in Gaza.
Why has Netanyahu rejected the 15-point plan?
Netanyahu has publicly rejected the plan because it requires Israel to withdraw forces from Gaza in exchange for Hamas gradually disarming and handing governance to an international force. He has tied any withdrawal to the completion of Hamas’s disarmament.
What does Hamas say about the plan?
Hamas says it has accepted the plan but will only implement it after Israel fulfils its commitments, including withdrawing forces and halting attacks. The group has not said it will disarm before Israel acts.
Which outlets reported that a US general would supervise disarmament?
The digests from Insider Paper, LaProvence.com, Globo, Le Figaro, and Reforma reported that an Israeli official said a US general would supervise Hamas’s disarmament. The claim was not carried in the left-rated or centre-rated reports.

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