Eight countries issued a rare joint condemnation of Israel on Sunday, accusing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government of sabotaging President Trump's plan to end the war in Gaza — a rebuke that landed just as Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner was meeting with Hamas officials in Cairo to try to keep the fragile peace effort alive.

The foreign ministers of Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Indonesia said in a joint statement that Israel's rejection of the roadmap for implementing Trump's Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict "amount[s] to a direct repudiation" of the agreement and "fundamentally undermine[s] the collective efforts undertaken to achieve a just and lasting peace."

"ISRAEL BEARS RESPONSIBILITY FOR DISRUPTING PEACE EFFORTS IN GAZA AND THE PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES."

The eight nations said Netanyahu's rejection of the proposal "directly threatens to derail the extensive efforts exerted by US President Trump" and called on Washington to "ensure and enforce Israel's full compliance" with the plan's terms, according to the Times of Israel.

Kushner's shuttle diplomacy

The statement was released as Kushner, traveling with Board of Peace officials including former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Nickolay Mladenov, worked to hold the ceasefire together on the ground. Kushner arrived in Israel on Sunday before heading to Cairo, where he met with senior Hamas leaders alongside officials from Qatar, Egypt and Turkey, and separately met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi.

The joint statement, reported by Haaretz, marks one of the most unified diplomatic rebukes of Israel from the region since the ceasefire framework was first announced, and comes at a delicate moment: the deal's technocratic Palestinian governing committee for Gaza has been meeting in Cairo this week to hammer out details of a post-war administration for the territory.

What's next

With Kushner's delegation still crisscrossing the region and no formal Israeli response yet to the eight-nation statement, the coming days are expected to determine whether the roadmap survives its first major diplomatic crisis or requires renegotiation. Egyptian and Qatari mediators are continuing to press both sides to return to the technical talks in Cairo.