Biden Hopes Gaza Cease-Fire Starts as Soon as Next Monday
- Talks ongoing for temporary pause in fighting, hostage release
- Biden says negotiators are ‘close’ but ‘they’re not done yet’
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US President Joe Biden said negotiators were making good progress toward a temporary pause in fighting between Israel and Hamas and that a cease-fire could begin as soon as the start of next week.
“My national security adviser tells me that we’re close, we’re close,” Biden told reporters on Monday in New York, when asked when he thought a cease-fire would start. “We’re not done yet. My hope is by next Monday we’ll have a cease-fire.”