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Middle East News: CIA Director Bill Burns and David Barnea, who heads Israel's Mossad spy agency, are currently in Doha for trilateral discussions with Qatari officials
US President Joe Biden asked Prime Minister Netanyahu to institute the daily pauses on Monday.
Biden administration officials have repeatedly said they do not support a total ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, even as the humanitarian situation for Palestinian civilians deteriorates.
Some respite may be in the works, but pauses in violence need to be long and frequent enough to deliver meaningful assistance to civilians in Gaza.
Evelyn Hockstein/ReutersIn a Monday phone call, President Joe Biden suggested to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he agree to a three-day pause in the war in order to work on freeing some of the hostages held by Hamas in Gaza, two U.S. and Israeli officials told Axios. The U.S. official told the outlet that the U.S., Israel, and Qatar have been working on a deal in which Hamas would release 10-15 hostages in return for the pause. But the two officials mentioned that Netanyahu doesn