On Sunday, the White House announced that US President Joe Biden spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as pressure builds on Israel and Hamas to reach a deal that would release some Israeli hostages and achieve a ceasefire in the nearly seven-month-long war in Gaza. It was the first time that Biden and Netanyahu had spoken since Hamas militants released a video on Saturday showing a US citizen taken hostage in the bloody attack on October 7. According to the White House readout of the call, the president referred to his statement with 17 other world leaders demanding that Hamas …
