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Netanyahu to meet with Biden and hostage families, then with Harris

July 25, 2024
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Netanyahu to meet with Biden and hostage families, then with Harris

President Biden and Vice President Harris will hold separate bilateral meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday, as U.S. leaders say they are in the final stages of closing a deal that will pause the fighting in Gaza and release hostages.

The meetings, part of Netanyahu’s hours-long visit to the White House, come a day after the Israeli leader delivered a defiant speech to a joint meeting of Congress. Netanyahu rejected criticisms from international organizations about Israel’s conduct, asserted without evidence that Iran was funding pro-Palestinian protesters and vowed Israel would settle for nothing less than “total victory.”

Biden, who announced this weekend he would drop out of the presidential race, has signaled ending the war in Gaza remains a top priority in his final months in office. He has repeatedly said a cease-fire deal was imminent, even though the U.S. and other negotiating partners have been frustrated for months by the lack of an agreement. The first phase would include a six-week pause in fighting and the release of some hostages. The second phase of the deal would continue a cessation of hostilities while Hamas and Israel negotiate a permanent cease-fire, determining the withdrawing of Israeli forces from Gaza.

Biden’s meeting on Thursday will be his first face-to-face encounter with Netanyahu since the president traveled to Israel in the days after the Oct. 7 attacks.

“I’m going to keep working to end the war in Gaza, bring home all the hostages, and bring peace and security to the Middle East and end this war,” Biden said Wednesday during his Oval Office address.

Biden tightly embraced Israel in the immediate aftermath of the Hamas attacks, but as Netanyahu has continued an all-out assault on Gaza, he has become more critical, calling on Israeli leaders to allow more aid into the territory, where nearly 2 million civilians are suffering from widespread starvation and a collapsed health-care system.

A senior U.S. administration official said Biden and Netanyahu will discuss a range of issues, including ongoing threats to Israel, developments in Gaza, the humanitarian situation and the ongoing negotiations over releasing hostages and implementing a cease-fire. The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to preview the president’s meeting, reiterated that the framework of a deal is largely agreed upon, and the leaders are now focused on the implementation phase.

The official, who did not watch Netanyahu’s speech to Congress and declined to comment on it, expressed optimism that a deal remains within reach, though refused to put a timeline on when it would be completed.

After Biden and Netanyahu hold a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office, the two leaders will meet with families of Americans held hostage by Hamas. By including the families, the White House is hoping to elevate their message that Netanyahu needs to stop making new demands and agree to the hostage cease-fire deal on the table, officials familiar with the matter said.

Netanyahu’s government is negotiating for the release of more than 100 Israeli hostages, though of that number, many are believed to be dead.

“Not bringing home the hostages will amount to a total failure,” Jon Polin, the father of American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, told The Washington Post in an interview.

Polin reiterated that message to Netanyahu during a meeting with the Israeli prime minister earlier this week at the Watergate Hotel in Washington. Netanyahu’s message to the families then was that his government is moving nearer to a cease-fire and hostage-release deal, a message they said was unsatisfactory.

“He did say we’re getting closer. I have no idea if he thought that that would appease us but for most of us, it did not,” Polin said.

Since the start of the Gaza War, Netanyahu has come under criticism for putting his military objectives related to the total destruction of Hamas ahead of the urgency of securing the release of hostages.

Earlier this summer, the United States placed blame on Hamas for adding new demands to the deal, but that outlook shifted earlier this month when Netanyahu directed Mossad Chief David Barnea to place new demands that moved the goal posts, said diplomats who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive negotiations.

Under the new conditions, Israel would not agree to withdraw its forces from the Philadelphi Corridor along the Egyptian border, the diplomats said. Israel would also not allow unrestricted access for Gazans seeking to return to their homes in the north — insisting that its forces be permitted to establish checkpoints to monitor the movement of the displaced.

A senior administration official said on Wednesday that the United States was looking for both Israel and Hamas to move on certain things to conclude a deal, but he did not spell out the details.

The State Department has used much less confrontational language toward Israel when describing its negotiating position in the talks.

When asked about Israel’s negotiating position, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said, “We have been engaged with them over the course of the past few weeks trying to bridge the final differences. And what they tell us and what they continue to show is that they are working to try to get a deal.”

This is a developing story. It will be updated.

This post appeared first on washingtonpost.com

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