The Biden administration has been placing increased pressure on Israel to agree to a ceasefire with Hamas since it began a military offensive operation in Gaza to destroy Hamas.
Israel’s military offensive operation in the Hamas-controlled territory of Gaza came after Hamas terrorists launched a land, sea, and air invasion on Israel, leaving 1,200 people dead and more than 250 people taken as hostages.
After the recent death of Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, Iran, Biden
said
Haniyeh’s death was “not helpful” in attempting to negotiate a ceasefire.
In November, Israel and Hamas agreed to a temporary pause in fighting, during which time several hostages taken by Hamas on October 7, 2023, were released. Hamas ended up
breaking
the week-long truce by launching rockets toward Israel.
As Breitbart News previously
reported
, Biden announced in May a three-part ceasefire deal, which included a “six-week ceasefire in which some hostages would be released, including the five American hostages.”
Under the deal, Israel would also release Palestinian prisoners, and negotiations between Israel and Hamas would begin regarding a permanent ceasefire. The terms of the ceasefire deal were “identical” to ones that had previously been discussed.
Harris has previously
criticized
Israel for “the scale of human suffering” taking place in Gaza while adding that Israel has a right to defend itself.
In recent remarks, Harris
suggested
that she would be willing to talk about an arms embargo on Israel with leaders from the Uncommitted National Movement. The pro-Palestinian group has previously encouraged voters to withhold casting their votes for Biden in response to his stance on Israel.