ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – US Special Envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner on Monday met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, coming a day after Israel pummeled the Gaza Strip with 153 tons of ordnance amid a faltering of a US-backed peace agreement with Hamas.

Shosh Bedrosian, the spokesperson for the Israeli premier’s office, said that the trio met to discuss “developments and updates in the region," noting that US Vice President JD Vance is also set to travel to Israel this week.

Both Witkoff and Kushner, the latter of whom is US President Donald Trump's son-in-law, featured in a CBS '60 Minutes'interview that aired Sunday, with the pair both denying charges of genocide against Israel for its bloody campaign in the Gaza Strip. Indeed, Kushner himself commented that it looked like "a nuclear bomb went off" in the Palestinian territory.

US President Trump unveiled a 20-point peace plan for Gaza in late September, detailing a proposal that would see the release of all Israeli hostages in Gaza, a phased Israeli military withdrawal, and an eventual transition period in which Hamas would be forced to disarm and an international stabilization force deployed in the Strip.

International leaders attended a summit in Egypt’s Sharm El-Sheikh in October, with US, Qatari, Turkish, and Egyptian heads of state signing a guarantee for the agreement.

On Sunday, both Israel and Hamas accused one another of violating the ceasefire terms.

“Earlier today, terrorists fired anti-tank missiles and opened fire on [Israeli military] forces operating to destroy terrorist infrastructure in the Rafah area in accordance with the terms of the agreement,” the Israeli military said in a statement.

The statement added that Israeli forces “responded with air strikes by fighter jets and artillery fire, targeting the Rafah area.”

The Israeli military later struck Gaza's Al Bureij refugee camp, saying in a separate statement that "in response to the blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement earlier today, the [Israeli military] has begun a series of strikes against Hamas terror targets in the southern Gaza Strip.”

Netanyahu told the Israeli parliament on Monday that Tel Aviv’s forces dropped 153 tons of ordnance on Gaza during the strikes, asserting that "one of our hands holds a weapon, the other hand is stretched out for peace."

"You make peace with the strong, not the weak. Today Israel is stronger than ever before," he continued.