“We’re nonetheless decided to make use of day by day we’ve in workplace to get this performed,” Sullivan stated, “and we’re not, by any stretch of creativeness, setting this apart”.
He stated there was nonetheless an opportunity to achieve an settlement earlier than Biden leaves workplace, however that it was additionally doable “Hamas, particularly, stays intransigent”.
Throughout their name, Netanyahu additionally thanked Biden for his lifelong assist of Israel and “the extraordinary assist from america for Israel’s safety and nationwide defence”, the White Home stated.
Israel launched its assault in Gaza after Hamas fighters stormed throughout its borders in October 2023, killing 1,200 individuals and taking greater than 250 hostages, in line with Israeli tallies.
Since then, greater than 46,000 individuals have been killed in Gaza, in line with Palestinian well being officers, with a lot of the enclave laid to waste and gripped by a humanitarian disaster, and most of its inhabitants displaced.
Vice President-elect JD Vance instructed the Fox Information Sunday programme in an interview taped on Saturday that he expects a deal for the discharge of US hostages within the Center East to be introduced within the closing days of the Biden administration, perhaps within the final day or two.
President-elect Donald Trump, a staunch supporter of Israel, has strongly backed Netanyahu’s objective of destroying Hamas. He has promised to carry peace to the Center East however has not stated how he would accomplish that.
