Overview
- CBS News’ 60 Minutes aired an interview Sunday in which Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner described a personal exchange with Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya.
- The encounter occurred during negotiations in Egypt with Hamas representatives in a room that also included Qatari, Turkish, and Egyptian officials.
- Witkoff said he offered condolences over al-Hayya’s son, killed in an Israeli airstrike in Doha, and disclosed that his own 22-year-old son died of an opioid overdose.
- Witkoff recalled telling al-Hayya they were “both members of a really bad club, parents who have buried children.”
- Kushner said the conversation briefly shifted the tone from a negotiation with a terrorist group to two people showing vulnerability, with no concrete outcome reported from the talks.