MIDEAST: Biden To Hold Call w/Egypt Pres As US Pushes For Ceasefire Talk Revival

Barak Ravid at Axios posts on X: "President Biden is expected to hold a phone call with Egyptian President el-Sisi on Friday and ask that Egypt resumes the delivery of aid trucks to Gaza through the Kerem Shalom crossing in Israel, U.S. officials said. They will aldo discuss Gaza hostage talks". 

• The call comes as CIA Director William Burns is set to travel to Europe to meet with the head of Mossad David Barnea and Qatari PM Mohammed Bin Abdul Rahman al-Thani to push for a revival of the indirect Hamas-Israel hostages-for-ceasefure talks. For the Biden administration, bringing about a ceasefire as soon as possible could prove advantageous calming divisions within the Democratic party over the White House's Israel policy. 
• Following the ICJ's ruling demanding Israel halt its assault on Rafah, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell has said “What is going to be the answer to the ruling of the International Court of Justice that has been issued today, what is going to be our position. We will have to choose between our support to international institutions of the rule of law or our support to Israel,”. Borrell has caused some frictionwithin the EU highlighting the major divisions between member states seen as 'pro-Israeli' or 'pro-Palestinian'.