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Thursday, July 4, 2024
Netanyahu tells Biden Israel is committed to ending war in Gaza ‘only after achieving all of its goals’
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells US President Joe Biden that Israel is committed to “ending the war only after achieving all of its goals,” according to the Israeli readout of the conversation.
In their phone call, Netanyahu also discusses his decision earlier in the day to send a negotiating team to participate in indirect talks with Hamas around a hostage release-for-ceasefire deal. Mossad chief David Barnea is expected to take off soon for talks, Channel 13 reports.
Netanyahu also offers his greetings for US Independence Day, and tells the president that “without the US, there is no freedom in the world.” Biden responds that without Israel, there is no safety for Jews in the world, according to the PMO.
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