Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahuarrived in Washington on Monday to meet with top government officials and President Joe Biden. The purpose of the visit is make a truce with Hamasduring internal turbulence in the United States.

The visit began yesterday evening with a meeting with representatives families of american hostages as well as with relatives who traveled with the Israeli Prime Minister.

«We are determined to repay our debt to everyone. The conditions for their return are there for the simple reason that we are putting very strong pressure on Hamas,” the prime minister said, according to an Israeli government statement.

As he said EFE On Monday, an American official President Joe Biden to Meet Netanyahu Thursday in the Oval Office of the White House.

The US president is currently in isolation at his home in Delaware after testing positive for Covid-19 on the 17th of this month while campaigning in Nevada. He is expected to return to Washington today, two days after dropping his presidential bid.

Biden and Netanyahu’s meeting is expected to focus on negotiations on a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, brokered by the United States, Qatar and Egypt, that would allow for the release of 116 Israeli hostages still held in the Gaza Strip, 42 of whom have died, as well as an influx of humanitarian aid into the devastated enclave.

His long-awaited visit comes at a time of great upheaval in American politics following the assassination attempt on former President and Republican candidate Donald Trump (2017-2021), and after President Biden decided, following questions about his advanced age (81), to drop the race and pass the baton to Vice President Kamala Harris.

This Wednesday, the Israeli prime minister will deliver his fourth speech to Congress, which will not be attended by Harris, who will hold a separate bilateral meeting with the Israeli prime minister at the White House this week. The Prime Minister’s agenda for today is unclear.

According to him, the newspaper Political Harris’ aide during his one-on-one meeting with Netanyahu, Vice President Plans to Reaffirm Commitment to Israel’s Security and their right to protection, but also “to express their view that the time has come to end the war in a way that will ensure that Israel is safe, all hostages are released, the suffering of the Palestinian civilian population in Gaza ends and the Palestinian people can enjoy their right to dignity, freedom and self-determination.”

Although the United States is Israel’s main partner and arms supplier, bilateral relations are not in the best condition due to the war against the Islamist group Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Biden has criticized Netanyahu for the brutality of his military offensive in Gaza, where nearly 39,000 have been killed, 90,000 wounded and 1.9 million displaced since the war began on October 7.

EFE