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Netanyahu’s meetings with Witkoff, Rubio both lasted some 2 hours
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meetings with US special envoy Steve Witkoff and with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday both lasted around two hours, a senior Israeli official says.
The meeting with Witkoff covered “the negotiations, Gaza, and some other topics,” says the senior official.
“They were detailed meetings on all the issues on agenda, all of them,” continues the official.
They then briefed US President Donald Trump before he met with Netanyahu later in the day. “We focused it in the meeting with the president to the issues that need a presidential decision.”
If there is a need, says the senior official, there will be another meeting between Netanyahu and Trump.
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