President Biden claimed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not be doing sufficient to safe a hostage cope with Hamas terrorists.
Biden made the remarks to reporters earlier than heading into the State of affairs Room, the place he and Vice President Harris convened with a hostage deal negotiating crew following the homicide of 23-year-old Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin and 5 different hostages by Hamas on Saturday.
The assembly was closed to the press, however the White Home offered a readout and photographs afterward.
“President Biden expressed his devastation and outrage at the murder, and reaffirmed the importance of holding Hamas’s leaders accountable,” the White Home mentioned. “During the meeting, President Biden and Vice President Harris received an update from the U.S. negotiation team on the status of the bridging proposal outlined by the United States, Qatar, and Egypt. They discussed next steps in the ongoing effort to secure the release of hostages, including continuing consultations with co-mediators Qatar and Egypt.”
Secretary of State Antony Blinken was seated subsequent to Harris through the assembly, one photograph confirmed. Different individuals have been CIA Director Invoice Burns, Biden’s Chief of Employees Jeff Zients, Nationwide Safety Affairs adviser Jake Sullivan, in addition to Jon Finer, Assistant to the President & Principal Deputy Nationwide Safety Advisor, Phil Gordon, Assistant to the President & Nationwide Safety Advisor to the Vice President, and Brett McGurk, Deputy Assistant to the President & Coordinator for the Center East and North Africa, Nationwide Safety Council.
The White Home revealed a photograph of President Biden within the State of affairs Room. (White Home)
Biden had taken questions from the press earlier Monday earlier than heading into the State of affairs Room. On the South Garden of the White Home, the place Biden disembarked from Marine One upon coming back from his trip house in Rehoboth Seaside, Delaware, one reporter requested, “Mr. President, do you assume it’s time for Prime Minister Netanyahu to do extra on this subject? Do you assume he’s doing sufficient?
“No,” the president responded flatly.
Requested what makes him assume this deal might be profitable in a approach that the opposite proposals weren’t, Biden mentioned earlier Monday, “Hope springs eternal.” The president mentioned “we’re very close” to with the ability to current a remaining hostage deal. He informed reporters he was headed right into a nationwide safety assembly and can be going to Pittsburgh later within the day.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Vice President Harris within the State of affairs Room. (Vice President’s Workplace)
“Yes. I have spoken to the American hostage … I spoke to his mom and dad, and we are not giving up. We are going to continue to push as hard as we can. Thank you,” Biden mentioned.
Earlier than Biden and Harris went into the State of affairs Room, Jonathan Dekel-Chen, the daddy of an Israeli-American hostage nonetheless being held by Hamas, pleaded for the U.S. and Israel to dealer a deal “with Satan.”
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President Joe Biden walks from Marine One on the South Garden of the White Home, Monday, Sept. 2, 2024, in Washington, after coming back from Rehoboth Seaside, Del. (AP Picture/Mark Schiefelbein)
Dekel-Chen, showing on “Fox & Friends,” acknowledged that the United States along with Qatar and Egypt try to dealer an settlement between Israel and “a savage terrorist organization,” however insisted that Israeli intelligence exhibits Hamas’ forces are depleted at this stage.
President Biden talks to reporters on the South Garden of the White Home, Monday, Sept. 2, 2024, in Washington, after coming back from Rehoboth Seaside, Del. (AP Picture/Mark Schiefelbein)
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He mentioned Netanyahu can not provide “an excuse anymore to not complete this deal” to carry the remaining 101 hostages, together with seven Individuals, taken into Gaza on Oct. 7, 2023, house.
Israel noticed a large labor strike on Monday after demonstrators took to the streets in droves Sunday protesting Israel’s management’s failure to achieve an settlement to launch the hostages 11 months into the warfare.
