1 week Ago By Haaretz
CIA Director Bill Burns will return to Cairo after meeting with Mossad chief David Barnea and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, CNN reported, citing a source familiar with the details. Burns arrived in Cairo last weekend to promote the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas and has spent the days since then shuttling between Doha, Jerusalem and Cairo. U.
S. President Joe Biden said he would halt shipments of weapons to Israel if it goes ahead with an invasion of Rafah. "Civilians have been killed in Gaza as a consequence of those bombs and other ways in which they go after population centers," he told CNN's Erin Burnett on Wednesday.
"I made it clear that if they go into Rafah – they haven't gone into Rafah yet – if they go into Rafah, I'm not supplying the weapons that have been historically used to deal with Rafah, to deal with the cities, that deal with that problem," he continued. See full story. Hamas has remained steadfast to its position towards a truce proposal and stuck to its approval of it, a member of Hamas' political bureau, Izzat El-Reshiq, said in a statement on Thursday.
Reshiq's comments came as Cairo hosted new ceasefire talks attended by delegations from Hamas, Israel, the United States and Qatar in an attempt to conclude a deal. Here's what you need to know on day 215 of the war: ■ U.S.
President Joe Biden said he would halt shipments of weapons to Israel if it goes ahead with an invasion of Rafah. ■ The Israeli army reported in a joi.
