As President Donald Trump was predicting this week that peace could be imminent in Gaza, he pointed to the man he dispatched to seal the deal as a source for his optimism.

Witkoff and Kushner did push for some concessions for Palestinians as well in the final peace plan, according to a second source with knowledge of the negotiations. They played a key “role in preserving language that was in accord with some Palestinian priorities,” said the source.

The US president's son-in-law never really left the Middle East. Now he is one of two US interlocutors tapped with ending Israel's genocide in Gaza

Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice, two former secretaries of state, say that Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff's success in negotiating a Gaza ceasefire is partly due to their proximity to President Trump and the changing circumstances in the Middle East after Israel's attack in Doha,

The president's son-in-law has now been instrumental in at least three major accomplishments of the Trump era.

US envoy Middle East Steve Witkoff, first daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner — who recently emerged as a key player in the long-shot peace negotiations — addressed a gathering of tens of thousands, who waved American and Israeli flags and held placards with images of Hamas-held hostages.

White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner were on hand to take part in indirect talks between Israel and Hamas, which aim to end the war in Gaza.

Trump, 79, addressed the Israeli parliament about the Hamas peace deal on Monday morning shortly after arriving from Washington, DC.