New Delhi, Aug. 17 -- US negotiator Jared Kushner held a rare meeting with senior Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya in Egypt on Sunday as the Trump administration stepped up efforts to revive a stalled Gaza ceasefire plan.

The meeting came days after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a 15-point, US-backed roadmap aimed at advancing a ceasefire, Hamas disarmament and an Israeli military withdrawal from Gaza.

Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law, is expected to meet Netanyahu on Monday alongside former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Nickolay Mladenov, director of the US-created Board of Peace overseeing the ceasefire.

Kushner's more than two-hour meeting with al-Hayya was confirmed by a regional official and a ...