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Dec. 13: Biden aide says Israel taking steps to protect civilians that even US might not have
US president meets hostages’ families, says working to free them * Authorities: Hostages Tal Chaimi, Joshua Mollel are dead * Hamas’s Haniyeh voices openness to talks on ending war
By Michael Bachner
and ToI Staff 13 December 2023, 3:23 am Edit
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and ToI Staff 13 December 2023, 3:23 am Edit
- US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, on November 30, 2023. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)
- File - US President Joe Biden meets at the White House with relatives of American hostages held by terrorists in Gaza, December 13, 2023 (White House)
- Jonathan Dekel-Chen, father of Gaza hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen, speaks to reporters alongside other relatives of American hostages taken hostage to Gaza during the October 7 terror attacks in Israel, after a meeting with US President Joe Biden in Washington, December 13, 2023. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
- This handout photo distributed by the Israel Defense Forces on December 13, 2023, shows troops operating in the Gaza Strip amid the war against Hamas. (Israel Defense Forces)
- File - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi meet IDF officers during a visit to a military facility in southern Israel, December 13, 2023. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
- Smoke billows after Israeli strikes in the forested hills of the village of al-Labbouneh in southern Lebanon near the border with northern Israel on December 13, 2023. (Photo by AFP)
- Israeli soldiers carry the flag-draped casket of Major Roei Meldasi during his funeral in Afula, December 13, 2023. (AP/Ariel Schalit)
- This handout photo distributed by the Israel Defense Forces on December 13, 2023, shows troops operating in the Gaza Strip amid the war against Hamas. (Israel Defense Forces)