US says it hopes truce will be extended ‘another day or 2 days or 3’ to release more hostages

US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan says the US is working to have the ongoing four-day truce extended by additional days in order for more than 50 hostages to be released, but that this will ultimately be decided by Hamas.

“It could be that the pause is extended for another day, or two days, or three days or even more,” Sullivan tells ABC’s “This Week.” “The ball is in Hamas’s court on that because what Israel has said is that it is prepared to pause another day of fighting for every 10 hostages that Hamas releases.”

“If the pause stops, the responsibility for that rests on the shoulders of Hamas, not on the shoulders of Israel,” the top Biden aide asserts.

Sullivan recognizes that the four-day truce allows Hamas the ability to “refit and retool” and also to “generate propaganda” on social media.

However, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ultimately chose to accept the risks that come with this deal “because of the benefit they’re getting, which are these incredible images of people being reunited with their families — the humanity of it, the sense of accomplishment of that and the possibility and promise that more and ultimately, all of the hostages will come home,” he tells NBC’s “Meet the Press.”