Netanyahu advisers to meet with Blinken, top White House adviser

Top advisers to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in Washington on Thursday.

The meeting is scheduled for 3 p.m. (7 p.m. GMT) today, according to a senior State Department official, and comes after the United States canceled a previous meeting with Israeli officials following Netanyahu’s public criticism of towards the Biden administration.

“It’s going to be a wide-ranging discussion about everything that’s going on with the war in Gaza, our support for Israel, our efforts to get a better sense of how they’re trying to conduct operations against Hamas, as well as continued discussions on “It’s important to get this deal done,” White House spokesman John Kirby said.

An unnamed White House official told Reuters the two senior U.S. officials would meet with Israeli national security adviser Tzachi Hanegbi and Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer as part of a broader, more formal “strategic dialogue.” .