WASHINGTON, June 1 — US President Joe Biden yesterday laid out what he described as a three-phase Israeli proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza in return for the release of Israeli...
Displaced Palestinians sit by their tents at a makeshift displacement camp in Rafah's Mawasi area in the southern Gaza Strip May 29, 2024. — AFP picWASHINGTON, June 1 — US President Joe Biden yesterday laid out what he described as a three-phase Israeli proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza in return for the release of Israeli hostages, saying “it’s time for this war to end” and winning a positive initial reaction from Hamas.
“It’s time for this war to end and for the day after to begin,” said Biden, who is under election-year pressure to stop the Gaza conflict, now in its eighth month.
Israel then invaded the Gaza Strip in what Netanyahu has called an effort to destroy Hamas, the Palestinian group that seized control of the area from the Fatah Palestinian faction in a violent struggle in 2007. “They want to occupy Gaza. They want to keep fighting for years and hostages are not a priority for them. Well, I’ve urged leadership in Israel to stand behind this deal, despite whatever pressure comes,” he added.“As the only American president who has ever gone to Israel at a time of war, as someone who just sent the US forces to directly defend Israel when it was attacked by Iran, I ask you to take a step back, think what will happen if this moment is lost,” he said.
In a sign of support for Israel despite the partisan divide in the United States, leaders of the Democratic-led US Senate and of the Republican-led House of Representatives yesterday invited Netanyahu to address a joint meeting of Congress.
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