Biden’s request from Egypt and Qatar after the last warning to Netanyahu

The Associated Press, quoting a senior US government official, reported that US President Joe Biden sent messages to the leaders of Egypt and Qatar on Friday asking them to press Hamas to conclude a deal. exchange prisoners with the Zionist regime.

CIA Director Bill Burns will head the American delegation to the Cairo talks, a US official said.

This senior official of the Biden administration said that the US President sent two messages to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi and Qatar’s Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani regarding the prisoner exchange negotiations and asked them to get a commitment from Hamas to agree to the agreement. and stick to it.

On Thursday, during a phone call with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of the Zionist regime, Biden talked about the ongoing discussions regarding the prisoners and the planned round of negotiations in Cairo.

According to the latest proposal, the occupiers and Hamas will agree to a 6-week ceasefire in exchange for the release of sick, elderly and wounded prisoners held by Hamas. Of course, the progress towards the conclusion of the agreement has been stopped for weeks.

This senior official of the Biden administration dropped the ball in Hamas’s court and claimed: “This is the truth.” If Hamas had simply agreed to the release of this vulnerable group of prisoners, the sick, the wounded, the elderly and young women, there would be a ceasefire in Gaza today.”

This official claimed without referring to the occupation’s interference in the suffering of the Palestinian people: “The responsibility of releasing the captives and providing relief materials to the residents of Gaza through a long ceasefire rests with Hamas”.

This official said that White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan will meet with the families of the prisoners at the White House on Monday. John Kirby also said that his country does not intend to conduct an independent investigation into the killing of seven aid workers at the Global Kitchen Foundation in Gaza.

In this regard, the Axios website reported, citing informed sources, that Joe Biden gave a firm ultimatum to Benjamin Netanyahu and threatened him to stop aid to Israel.

This website reported quoting three knowledgeable sources: “Biden gave an ultimatum to Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday in a phone call, saying that if Israel does not change its approach in Gaza, we will not help you.”

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Biden did not specify exactly what he meant by the loss of American support, and in this context, he did not mention the possibility of stopping arms shipments to Israel.

These sources emphasized that this conversation was the “hardest” between Biden and Netanyahu “in terms of tone and content” since October 7.

The American NBC news network, quoting American officials, reported on Friday that three reasons led to the change of the position of the American president towards the occupation: the killing of aid workers, the daily request of Biden’s wife to stop the war, and the mobilization of the American Muslim community, which It led to a change in Biden’s position.

After the call, White House spokesman John Kirby said the steps the United States expects Israel to take include “increasing the amount of aid sent to Gaza, reopening additional crossings into Gaza, moving toward a cease-fire, and improving the protection of The civilians are the private sector and the aid workers.” Kirby said: “If there is no change in their policy, there should be changes in our policy.”

Source: ISNA