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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doubled down on his insistence that the IDF must retain security control of Gaza and the West Bank for the foreseeable future ahead of his phone conversation with US President Joe Biden.It was reported later on Sunday that the two spoke for 45 minutes.
The two discussed ongoing efforts to secure the release of the hostages being held by Hamas and the president reaffirmed that a military operation in Rafah shouldn't proceed without a "credible and executable plan for ensuring the safety of and support for the more than one million people sheltering there," according to a readout by the White House.
Biden called for "urgent and specific steps to increase the throughput and consistency of humanitarian assistance to innocent Palestinian civilians."
“We want to bring about the demilitarization of the [Gaza] strip. This requires our supreme security control and responsibility over the entire area west of Jordan, including the Gaza Strip. There is no substitute for it in the foreseeable future,” Netanyahu told his government ministers on Sunday during a visit to an army base.
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The two discussed ongoing efforts to secure the release of the hostages being held by Hamas and the president reaffirmed that a military operation in Rafah shouldn't proceed without a "credible and executable plan for ensuring the safety of and support for the more than one million people sheltering there," according to a readout by the White House.
Biden called for "urgent and specific steps to increase the throughput and consistency of humanitarian assistance to innocent Palestinian civilians."
“We want to bring about the demilitarization of the [Gaza] strip. This requires our supreme security control and responsibility over the entire area west of Jordan, including the Gaza Strip. There is no substitute for it in the foreseeable future,” Netanyahu told his government ministers on Sunday during a visit to an army base.
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