Administration official hails ‘breakthrough’ after Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on Thursday
The US believes there is a “significant opening” to finalise a deal between Israel and Hamas to halt the nine-month war in Gaza and secure the release of Israeli hostages held in the strip, according to a senior administration official. Speaking after US President Joe Biden held a 30-minute phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday, the official said “we have had a breakthrough on a critical impasse”.
their atmosphere, and the proposals presented to reach an end to the treacherous aggression against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip”, a Hizbollah statement said. Mediators last thought they were close to a deal in May, but those talks stalled with disputes over the details as Hamas insisted that any agreement had to include guarantees that the arrangement would end with a permanent ceasefire and Israel withdrawing its troops from Gaza.
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