Biden says Netanyahu not doing enough to seal hostage deal amid ‘take it or leave it’ Israel-Gaza ceasefire talks
President Joe Biden told reporters that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not doing enough to secure a hostage deal in the Israel-Hamas war.
Biden made the remark to a Reuters reporter at the White House on Monday morning. This comes as the Biden administration irons out “take it or leave it” alongside Egypt and Qatar to present to the Israeli government and Hamas, The Washington Post reports.
“You can’t keep negotiating this,” an anonymous senior Biden administration official told the Post. “This process has to be called at some point.”
Officials from the US, Egypt and Qatar were already working on the deal before Israel recovered the bodies of six hostages held by Hamas in Gaza over the weekend. The Israel Defense Forces said the hostages were killed “shortly before” they were set to be rescued.
The unnamed senior administration official told the Post that US officials also believe the hostages were killed shortly before the rescue operation was set to take place.
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