President Joe Biden told reporters Tuesday that it’s now up to Hamas to approve a Ramadan ceasefire halting the violence in Gaza.
Biden spent the weekend at Camp David preparing for his State of the Union address on Thursday and monitoring the slow progress toward a Gaza ceasefire. Recent 2024 polling shows Biden locked in a dead heat or even trailing former President Donald Trump ahead of the election in November, and the fighting in Israel is causing him to bleed support from the Democratic base.
“It’s in the hands of Hamas right now. The Israelis have been cooperating. There’s an offer out there that’s rational. We don’t know what — we’ll know in a couple of days what’s going to happen, but we need the ceasefire,” he stated before boarding Air Force One for his return trip to Washington, D.C. “We need to see what Hamas
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