President Biden said the U.S. was working on a deal between Israel and Hamas for a pause in fighting of at least six weeks.
Mediators in Cairo on Tuesday to renew the push for a cease-fire in Gaza, even as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has rejected a Hamas proposal and vowed to send ground troops into an area where more than one million civilians are sheltering.
President Biden sent the C.I.A. director, William J. Burns, to Cairo for the talks, which aim to secure the release of hostages from Gaza in exchange for a pause in fighting. Mr. Burns was meeting with the head of Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency, the prime minister of Qatar and Egyptian officials, according to Al Qahera, an Egyptian state-owned television channel.
Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia, fired missiles into northern Israel on Tuesday that injured at least two people, emergency officials said, amid a fresh diplomatic push to end months of clashes along the border.
Hezbollah said that it had launched two separate attacks into Israel — one aimed at Israeli soldiers and the other at a police building in the northern town of Kiryat Shmona.
Culled from Channelstv