Senior officials from the United States and Israel held a virtual meeting on Monday to discuss alternatives to a full-scale invasion of Rafah as the Biden administration seeks to dissuade the Israeli government from undertaking a significant military operation in the beleaguered Gazan city.
After the meeting ended, a US official told CNN that the Biden administration had “no expectation” there would be a breakthrough and the White House saw the meeting as only the latest in a series of discussions that will continue in the coming weeks about a possible Israeli incursion into the southern Gaza city. Still, officials from both countries described the meeting as “constructive” in a joint statement and said another, in-person meeting could take place as early as next week.
” Even though it ended with no promises of a breakthrough or compromise, the fact that a meeting took place at all was seen as a positive sign of the continuing lines of communication between Israel and the United States, as daylight grows brighter between how the countries’ leaders have communicated about Israel’s war in Gaza.
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