He said Biden He told reporters at the start of the meeting that he wanted to “make sure that people in northern Israel as well as southern Lebanon are able to return to their homes, and return safely.”
“The Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, and our entire team are working with the intelligence community to try to get this done. We will continue to work until we get it done, but we have a long way to go,” he said.
This is Biden’s first comment in a week that has witnessed a significant increase in the level of escalation that has continued for more than 11 months between Israel and HezbollahEspecially after the bombing of communication devices belonging to party members on Tuesday and Wednesday in an operation attributed to the Hebrew state, which resulted in the killing of nearly 40 people and the wounding of about three thousand.
Biden also denied that a ceasefire in Gaza was out of reach, following a Wall Street Journal report that officials believed it was unlikely.
“If you say one day it’s not realistic, why don’t we leave too? A lot of things don’t seem realistic until we get them done. We have to keep doing it,” Biden insisted.
