Biden: Netanyahu’s efforts for a ceasefire are not enough

According to Isna, US President Joe Biden said today that the parties to the Gaza war are “very close” to reaching a ceasefire and a prisoner exchange agreement. However, after being pressed by reporters on whether Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was trying hard enough to reach a deal, Biden replied, “No.”

According to the report of the Zionist publication “Times of Israel”, the prime minister of this regime has been criticized for prioritizing the new request to maintain the army forces of the occupying regime in the Philadelphia corridor on the Gaza-Egypt border for the first phase of the 6-week ceasefire agreement.

The security institutions of the Zionist regime oppose Netanyahu’s position and argue that the Israeli army can return to the corridor if needed, and this new demand will risk ruining the negotiations and the loss of prisoners’ lives.

Earlier, it was reported that the Israeli Minister of War, Yoav Galant, said in a speech: The political and security cabinet should convene as soon as possible and review the decision made on Thursday (to stay in the Philadelphia axis).

He said: Time has been lost in connection with the abducted people (Zionist prisoners in the Gaza Strip) who were killed, and now the other people who are still in Gaza should be returned.

Hebrew media recently revealed that Netanyahu and Gallant recently had an argument that included shouting and verbal conflict at the last cabinet meeting that revolved around the prisoner exchange and cease-fire agreement between Israel and the Hamas movement. At the beginning of the meeting, Gallant presented a detailed report in which he said that the prisoner exchange agreement has reached a strategic crossroads for Israel, and if Israel does not agree to the agreement, its meaning will be much broader than the issue of Zionist prisoners because it will lead to a regional war.

On the other hand, a Zionist official who was present at the ceasefire negotiations told The Times of Israel: “Netanyahu has relied too much on military pressure, while ignoring the need for parallel diplomatic initiatives such as the prisoner trade, which “The price will be the lives of the prisoners.”

In such a situation and despite the anger of Israeli prisoners’ families towards Netanyahu, earlier, the American media “Washington Post” reported that the United States will present the Gaza ceasefire plan to the parties in the coming weeks, and if none of the parties accept it, the United States will return to negotiations under its own leadership. will end and abandon it.

The Washington Post, quoting a senior American official who did not want to be named, wrote in a report: “The United States has been negotiating with Egypt and Qatar for a long time regarding the Gaza ceasefire agreement and plans to present its final plan in the coming weeks, and if the parties are able to If they do not accept it, America will end the negotiations under its leadership.

It should be noted that this American official spoke of this Washington plan under the title “If you want, accept and if you don’t want, nothing”.

Since the beginning of the war, the Zionist regime, with the support of the United States, has launched a devastating war against the people of Gaza, and more than 132,000 Palestinians have been martyred and wounded. In this war, in addition to the widespread destruction and starvation that took the lives of hundreds of Palestinian children and is considered one of the worst human tragedies in the world, more than 10,000 Palestinians have also gone missing.

With the support of the United States and European countries such as England, the Zionist regime, by ignoring 2 resolutions of the Security Council to immediately stop its attacks on the Gaza Strip, as well as the instructions of the International Court of Justice about the need to take measures to prevent genocide and try to improve human conditions in Gaza, to His attacks continue.

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