Republican Senator Lindsey Graham calls on US President Joe Biden to clarify that the hostage-ceasefire deal offer that he presented on Friday will prevent Israel from destroying Hamas.
“The enduring defeat of Hamas — ending this barbaric terrorist organization forever — is not only in the region’s interests, it is in America’s interests,” he writes in a post on X.
He insists that Biden “needs to be crystal clear that this ceasefire proposal does not prevent Israel from continuing military operations to destroy Hamas and to ensure they have no role in the future.”
“Please be clear, Mr. President,” he adds.
In a high-stakes speech on Friday, the US president presented what he said was the latest Israeli proposal for a hostage deal and ceasefire to end the war in Gaza, and called on Hamas to accept the offer.
Biden laid out the details of three phases, with particular emphasis on the first six-week phase, which was largely similar to the framework that was discussed in previous rounds of negotiations but included some new conditions.
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