U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that the hopes for a ceasefire in Gaza now lay in the hands of the Hamas terrorist organization—while Israel is cooperating with the idea.
“There’s an offer out there that’s rational. We don’t know what … we’ll know in a couple days if it’s going to happen. But we need the cease-fire,” the President said to reporters in Washington after spending some time at Camp David.
This comes a day after Vice President Kamala Harris met with a member of Israel’s wartime cabinet—who came to Washington in defiance of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu—as the Biden administration intensifies its efforts to push more humanitarian aid into war-battered Gaza.