"Correspondent Leslie Stahl asked both men would you say now, having been there, that it was genocide? No, no, Kushner quickly responded. Absolutely not. No, Witkoff said right after. No, there was a war being fought. Israel's military offensive started immediately after Hamas terrorists broke into Israel and killed 1,195 people and took hundreds of hostages back to Gaza on October 7, 2023."
"It looked almost like a nuclear had been set off in that area, Kushner said. And then you see these people moving back, and I asked the IDF Where are they going?' Like, I'm looking around, these are all ruins. And they said Well, they're going back to the areas where their destroyed home was, onto their plot, and they're going to pitch a tent.'"
Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff rejected accusations that Israel committed genocide in Gaza, stating the conflict was a war. Israel's military offensive followed Hamas militants' October 7 attack that killed 1,195 people and took hundreds of hostages. Kushner visited Gaza after the ceasefire and described massive destruction, saying the area looked almost like a nuclear blast and that returning residents were living among ruins and pitching tents on destroyed home plots. Kushner and Witkoff traveled to Tel Aviv to mark the pending release of 20 living hostages, where a crowd chanted gratitude toward President Trump. President Trump described Gaza as in need of revamping and expressed hope Gazans could remain as rebuilding proceeds.
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