President Joe Biden mentioned a brief cease-fire between Israel and Hamas is imminent as negotiators work this week to hammer out the small print of a possible deal.
Throughout a visit to New York on Monday, Biden instructed reporters {that a} cease-fire might be in place as quickly as subsequent week.
“My nationwide safety advisor tells me that we’re shut. We’re shut. We’re not achieved but,” Biden mentioned. “My hope is by subsequent Monday, we’ll have a cease-fire.”
Tensions between Israel and Hamas have been reignited in October after Hamas killed greater than 1,000 individuals in large-scale terrorist assaults and kidnapped 200 individuals.
Within the months since, the demise toll within the Palestinian territory of Gaza has topped 29,000 amid ongoing Israeli assaults, in accordance with the Palestinian well being ministry.
Representatives from each side are assembly this week to hash out a cease-fire that will pause the preventing in Gaza for six weeks and make sure the return of the remaining Israeli hostages.
Members of the Israel Protection Forces and Israeli Mossad and Shin Wager spy companies held a spherical of talks in Doha with Egyptian and Qatari mediators on Monday.
Representatives from Hamas additionally met with mediators within the metropolis, signaling that talks are additional alongside than they’ve been because the battle started.
Earlier this month, Israel rejected a Hamas counter-offer that will have applied a four-and-a-half-month cease-fire, calling the plan “delusional” after assembly with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
The Biden Administration has doubled down on efforts to safe a cease-fire this month forward of the beginning of Ramadan in two weeks.
Talks are anticipated to proceed on Tuesday.
