Biden to call Netanyahu today to discuss ongoing hostage deal, says White House

Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief

US President Joe Biden (left) with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023. (Haim Zach/GPO)
US President Joe Biden (left) with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on October 18, 2023. (Haim Zach/GPO)

US President Joe Biden will call Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later today to discuss the ongoing truce and hostage deal, US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan tells NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

This will be Biden’s 15th call with Netanyahu since the start of the war.

Sullivan stresses that Biden has been personally engaged in the hostage deal negotiations, again calling Qatar’s emir yesterday following Hamas’s delay in freeing the second group of hostages.

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