Biden has announced that Israel is offering a three-part deal that would ultimately end the war.
This deal would include a first six weeks in which women, the elderly, and the sick will be released in exchange for the complete withdrawal of IDF forces from populated areas in Gaza and an exchange of Palestinian prisoners. Six hundred trucks of aid will be admitted into the strip.
The second phase would include the release of other living hostages, including men, and the IDF would leave Gaza completely.
The third phase would include the reconstruction of Gaza.
Biden’s remarks urged Israelis to accept the deal.
“To the people of Israel, let me say this: As someone who has had a lifelong commitment to Israel, as the only American president who has ever gone to Israel at a time of war, as someone who just sent US forces to directly defend Israel when it was attacked by Iran, I ask…
