State Department Spox Pressed On Ceasefire Negotiations: 'What More Does Israel Need To Do?'

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State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller was asked about ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas.

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00:00All right.

00:05Happy Thursday.

00:06I don't have anything to start, so why don't we start with questions?

00:09Daphne.

00:11So Biden and Yahoo are due to meet.

00:12What's the main message that the U.S. is going to convey in this meeting, and what more does

00:17Israel need to do to bring this ceasefire to a reality?

00:20So I actually think they're meeting right now, or at least we're scheduled for a meeting

00:24that's starting right now.

00:25The Secretary is there attending that meeting.

00:27And I would expect that the primary focus of this will be on the ongoing negotiations

00:33to reach a ceasefire deal that would bring home the hostages, including the American

00:37hostages who remain held inside Gaza, that would alleviate the suffering of the Palestinian

00:43people that we think would set the conditions for lasting peace and lasting regional stability.

00:48And so I think the message from the American side in that meeting will be that we need

00:52to get this deal over the line, that we have been working on this for some time.

00:56It's been a tough negotiation.

00:57We've made progress.

00:58We've gotten a framework agreement, and we now need to bridge the final differences and

01:03get a deal, and get a deal in place so we can all move forward.

01:07What more do you need to see from Israel, and what more do you need to see from Hamas

01:11to get this over the finish line?

01:12So I don't want to negotiate in public, but we did get a – I think it was a significant

01:18breakthrough that we got an agreement on the framework that the President laid out.

01:22Obviously, there were pieces of that framework that we had been negotiating for months and

01:27that we had been pushing for agreement on for months.

01:30But there are still some remaining issues.

01:32Some of those – we haven't ever talked about them publicly, I don't believe, but

01:35some of those have been reported publicly that have remained sticking points.

01:40But we do believe there are practical solutions that we have put on the table, that the other

01:44mediators have put on the table, that would bridge the divide between the two parties.

01:48And so what we need to see is for an agreement to be reached, and that means both sides coming

01:55to the table in good faith and being willing to reach an agreement.

01:58And we think we can get there, but there's more work to do.

State Department Spox Pressed On Ceasefire Negotiations: 'What More Does Israel Need To Do?'

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