US Secretary of State Antony Blinken yesterday said that Washington wanted to see a ceasefire deal in Gaza concluded and the hostages brought out in the next two weeks.
A renewed push is underway to reach a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas and return Israeli hostages before US President-elect Donald Trump takes office on January 20.
“We very much want to bring this over the finish line in the next two weeks, the time we have remaining,” Blinken told a press conference in South Korea.
Meanwhile Hamas said it has approved a list of 34 hostages presented by Israel to be exchanged in a possible ceasefire deal.
But the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Hamas has not provided a list of hostage names “up to this moment”.
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