President Joe Biden insists Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not doing enough to secure the release of hostages being held in the Gaza Strip.
As he returned to the White House on Monday, reporters pressed Biden on negotiations for the release of the hostages.
One reporter asked, “Do you think [Netanyahu is] doing enough?”
“No,” Biden responded.
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His comment comes after Israel’s discovery of six hostages who were killed in Gaza, including American citizen Hersh Goldberg-Polin,
According to The Guardian, “Tens of thousands of Israelis took to the streets on Sunday night and a general strike was called amid an eruption of public outrage over the government’s handling of the war in Gaza after the deaths of six hostages being held deep underground by Hamas.”
“The discovery of the hostages’ bodies in Gaza over the weekend threatened to bring deep divisions over the war to breaking point. An estimated 100,000 protested in Tel Aviv, while others demonstrated in Jerusalem as pressure on the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to reach a ceasefire deal to bring the remaining hostages home reached a new peak,” it added.
