Dahlan: Kushner guarantees halt to Israeli strikes on Gaza
Palestinian politician Mohammed Dahlan says Jared Kushner confirmed a deal with Israel to stop attacks on Gaza from Sunday morning, after factions signed off on a 15-point disarmament document.
The promise to stop the strikes on Gaza came verbally, through a middleman who holds no formal post in any government. Mohammed Dahlan, the Palestinian Authority’s former security chief in Gaza, wrote on Facebook that Jared Kushner had confirmed to him a deal with the Israeli side to halt attacks from Sunday morning. The assurance followed an agreement among Hamas and other Palestinian factions on a 15-point disarmament document.
Dahlan was careful about who said what to whom:
Since Hamas and the Palestinian factions have agreed on the 15-point document, Mr Jared Kushner has confirmed to us that he has agreed with the Israeli side that it will stop the attacks on Gaza starting tomorrow morning.
No Israeli government statement has confirmed that commitment. What did come out officially came out of Washington: Hamas accepted the disarmament plan drawn up by the Board of Peace on Thursday, and Donald Trump announced the deal late that same evening on Truth Social.
Today the Board of Peace has reached a HISTORIC agreement on the COMPLETE DISARMAMENT of Hamas.
What does the disarmament document actually set out?
The timelines run far longer than the language coming out of Washington suggests. Hamas has 14 days to prepare an inventory of the weapons it holds, and a Board of Peace official estimated that handing over heavy weapons would take between 200 and 300 days. At best, that is work finishing somewhere in mid-2027.
Around the disarmament sits a security structure that has yet to be built:
- an international stabilisation force of roughly 5,000 personnel, under an American general
- a National Committee for the administration of Gaza, a Palestinian technocratic body backed by the United States
- four guarantors of the deal: the United States, Turkey, Egypt and Qatar
The Board of Peace is run by a founding executive board of seven, chaired by former British prime minister Tony Blair. Kushner sits on it, alongside US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff and World Bank President Ajay Banga. Trump chairs the Board itself for life, and Nickolay Mladenov serves as high representative for Gaza.
Why Dahlan is in this story at all
Dahlan lives in Abu Dhabi and advises UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed. His aide Samir Masharawi said Dahlan entered the negotiations through direct contacts with the American side, specifically with Kushner. An Arab diplomat confirmed that Kushner has been consulting him since he took over the Gaza file last year, and Dahlan met Shin Bet chief David Zini earlier this year.
Kushner is the same man who drove the October 2025 ceasefire to a close. The channel that worked then is being used again, except this time it has stepped out of the shadows.
A guarantee is not yet a ceasefire
When we reported that Hamas disarmament had been agreed while the strikes carried on, the open question was whether anyone on the ground was honouring what had been signed in Washington. The answer arrived quickly. On Saturday, one day after the deal was announced, Israeli strikes on Gaza killed again. More than 1,100 Palestinians have been killed since the ceasefire took effect on 10 October 2025, and Israeli forces still hold positions behind the so-called yellow line, the withdrawal line drawn by that same ceasefire.
Hamas stated its own terms plainly. Negotiating delegation member Ghazi Hamad said:
Hamas will not implement any step of the Gaza peace deal if the Israeli occupation forces do not fulfil their obligations.
Hamas ties the handover of heavy weapons to the creation of a Palestinian state, which the current Israeli government rejects. Benjamin Netanyahu has not publicly backed the plan, and Israeli parliamentary elections are set for October 2026. A prime minister heading into a campaign has little reason to take on a commitment his coalition partners will not forgive.
That makes Sunday morning a date anyone can measure. If the strikes stop, Dahlan’s post becomes the first proof that the Abu Dhabi channel carries real weight in Israeli decisions. If they do not, what was signed in Washington looks like a schedule for a war that keeps running.
