Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday said he is still committed to the Israeli proposal for a hostage and ceasefire deal after walking back his support for it a day earlier.
The Israeli proposal, which was approved by Netanyahu’s cabinet and delivered to Hamas more than three weeks ago, involves a three-phase deal that would lead to the release of all remaining 120 hostages and to “sustainable calm” in Gaza.
But on Sunday, Netanyahu told Channel 14, an Israeli television channel friendly to the prime minister, that he is interested in a “partial deal” with Hamas that will free “some of the hostages” held in Gaza and allow ‘Israel’ to continue fighting in the enclave.
Netanyahu had previously not publicly said he didn’t intend to implement all three phases of the deal proposed by ‘Israel’.
Hamas in a statement on Sunday said Netanyahu’s comments showed he opposes the UN Security Council resolution and isn’t onboard with Biden’s push for a deal and an end to the war in Gaza.
Israeli Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant met on Monday in Washington with CIA director Bill Burns and discussed the efforts to reach a hostage and ceasefire deal in Gaza.
Gallant told reporters before the meeting that he is “committed to bringing all the hostages back home”.
Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman: US likely unable to assist ‘Israel’ in war with Hezbollah
Joint Chiefs of Staff head Charles Q. Brown warned on Monday that the US may not be able to help defend ‘Israel’ against an all-out war with Hezbollah in the same way that it stepped in during the Iran drone attack in April.
Brown also said that any Israeli military offensive into Lebanon could risk triggering a broader war, putting US forces in danger.
He also said it was hard to fend off the shorter-range rockets that Hezbollah fires across the border into ‘Israel’.
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