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Witkoff, Kushner on Israel-Hamas deal

2025-10-20 News & Politics
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How Real Estate Dealmakers Secured the Israel-Hamas Hostage Ceasefire Deal

Discover the unconventional, intensely personal tactics Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff employed, leveraging presidential power to broker a fragile truce between Israel and Hamas. Understand the critical points needed to ensure this volatile agreement sustains future regional stability.

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  • Businessmen used high-pressure real estate negotiation tactics, substituting traditional diplomacy with personal threats and promises.
  • President Trump directly intervened in a diplomatic crisis, demanding an apology from Netanyahu to Qatar to restart stalled talks.
  • Long-term success depends on establishing a viable alternative governing structure in Gaza, otherwise Hamas will reconstitute its control.

This report analyzes the high-stakes negotiation process that resulted in the initial hostage release and ceasefire. Learn how experience, accountability, and understanding group paranoia shaped the agreement's structure and what remains unresolved for lasting peace.

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As the fragile Gaza truce is tested, ceasefire negotiators Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff explain what went into the Israel-Hamas peace deal, and what's needed to make sure it sticks. #news #worldnews #middleeast "60 Minutes" is the most successful television broadcast in history. Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news, the broadcast began in 1968 and is still a hit, over 50 seasons later, regularly making Nielsen's Top 10. Subscribe to the "60 Minutes" YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/60minutes Watch full episodes: https://cbsnews.com/60-minutes/full-episodes/ Get more "60 Minutes" from "60 Minutes: Overtime": https://cbsnews.com/60-minutes/overtime/ Follow "60 Minutes" on Instagram: https://instagram.com/60minutes/ Like "60 Minutes" on Facebook: https://facebook.com/60minutes Follow "60 Minutes" on X: https://twitter.com/60Minutes Subscribe to our newsletter: https://cbsnews.com/newsletters/ Download the CBS News app: https://cbsnews.com/mobile/ Try Paramount+ free: https://paramountplus.com/?ftag=PPM-05-10aeh8h For video licensing inquiries, contact: [email protected]

Top Comments (10)

@rahajibaba 2025-10-20

Jared Kushner said the Gaza should be Beachfront property

126 15 replies
@justinpile979 2025-10-20

These questions are terrible. Leslie is basically just spoon feeding them answers and expositing for them. 60 minutes is better than this

53 2 replies
@rachelengstrom9120 2025-10-20

This is bs. 60 Minutes is now defunct and cannot be trusted.

48 3 replies
@slothachunk 2025-10-20

Kushner salivating at the money he'll make on the real estate on top of the bodies of slain Palestinians. Not even being hyperbolic, he said as much already in previous interviews. Sickening.

37 1 replies
@ChilleBruh 2025-10-20

What deal they’re *STILL FIGHTING!!*

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@alant9189 2025-10-20

These victory laps are premature

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@timothypeters5679 2025-10-22

“We’re here to do good”. Trust me.

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@crankin77 2025-10-24

60mins: “you had no idea” Witkoff: scratches eye (textbook body language giveaway) “We had no idea”.

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@shadowmosestv 2025-10-20

It doesn’t make sense to claim the place was hit by a nuclear bomb and then say it’s not a genocide — that’s contradictory.

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@julianbrown1092 2025-10-29

Make sure you follow up with the promo piece with questions about the inevitable breakdown of the ceasefire.

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