'Beyond your comprehension': US only beginning to understand Gaza militarization, Kushner says

“We’re now starting to understand the scope of the militarization of Gaza,” Kushner said. “It is beyond your comprehension, and so demilitarizing it is not going to be easy.”

The United States has only begun to grasp the scale of Gaza's current level of militarization, US envoy Jared Kushner told reporters in Kyiv on Sunday.

“We’re now starting to understand the scope of the militarization of Gaza,” Kushner said. “It is beyond your comprehension, and so demilitarizing it is not going to be easy.”

He also said that the US had worked with Hamas for more than four months, and that the terror group had signed an agreement committing to demilitarization.

“You can’t go in if there’s guns, right? You can’t send the government into a place,” he said.

Turning to Israel, Kushner said Washington and Jerusalem agree on the desired end state, but that political considerations in Israel are complicating the process.

“We’re working through some political issues in Israel. I think we agree with them on the end state,” he said. “They just have a crazy election, and that makes them a little irrational in certain regards, but we’re very determined that we’re working through these things.”

Kushner, Witkoff arrive in Ukraine to discuss security with Zelensky

Kushner, along with US envoy Steve Witkoff, had arrived in Ukraine on Sunday in order to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky and discuss security and diplomacy.

Zelensky said that the talks were "very substantial," adding that they had discussed security and economic guarantees for Ukraine, as well as supplies of air-defense missiles and a winter support package.

He also hoped that trilateral talks, including Ukraine, Russia and the US, would restart soon.

On Saturday, the two Americans had also visited Moscow in order to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin.