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Wires carrying comments from White House National Security Council spokesperson stating, “Hamas has not yet given response to Israeli proposal for hostage deal.” The comments are the latest in a back and forth between the US/Israel and Hamas, accusing the other of holding up the ceasefire deal.

  • Kirby: “Biden thinks deal on table is best chance to get hostages out, end hostilities,” adding that Biden, “will continue to work with [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu to try to get proposal over finish line," and Biden and Netanyahu, “will talk again as appropriate.”
  • Kirby’s comments are likely designed to contain fallout from a widely reported Time magazine interview, where Biden said "there is every reason for people" to conclude that Netanyahu is prolonging the war in Gaza for personal political reasons.
  • Biden told Time his biggest disagreement with Netanyahu is about the future governance of Gaza: "There needs to be a transition to a two-state solution. And that's my biggest disagreement with Bibi Netanyahu. I think there is a clear path for a transition where the Arab states would provide security and reconstruction in Gaza in return [transition to a two-state solution].”
  • The House of Representative will vote today on a Republican bill that would sanction members of the International Criminal Court if they pursue arrest warrants against Israeli government officials.
  • The White House said in a Statement of Administration Policy opposing the bill it is, "deeply concerned" about a "rush to apply for arrest warrants" but "opposes the imposition of sanctions against the ICC…”
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Wires carrying comments from White House National Security Council spokesperson stating, “Hamas has not yet given response to Israeli proposal for hostage deal.” The comments are the latest in a back and forth between the US/Israel and Hamas, accusing the other of holding up the ceasefire deal.

  • Kirby: “Biden thinks deal on table is best chance to get hostages out, end hostilities,” adding that Biden, “will continue to work with [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu to try to get proposal over finish line," and Biden and Netanyahu, “will talk again as appropriate.”
  • Kirby’s comments are likely designed to contain fallout from a widely reported Time magazine interview, where Biden said "there is every reason for people" to conclude that Netanyahu is prolonging the war in Gaza for personal political reasons.
  • Biden told Time his biggest disagreement with Netanyahu is about the future governance of Gaza: "There needs to be a transition to a two-state solution. And that's my biggest disagreement with Bibi Netanyahu. I think there is a clear path for a transition where the Arab states would provide security and reconstruction in Gaza in return [transition to a two-state solution].”
  • The House of Representative will vote today on a Republican bill that would sanction members of the International Criminal Court if they pursue arrest warrants against Israeli government officials.
  • The White House said in a Statement of Administration Policy opposing the bill it is, "deeply concerned" about a "rush to apply for arrest warrants" but "opposes the imposition of sanctions against the ICC…”