{"id":38823,"date":"2024-12-18T01:22:53","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T22:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=38823"},"modified":"2024-12-18T01:22:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T22:22:53","slug":"the-white-house-gaza-conflict-parties-near-ceasefire-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/18\/the-white-house-gaza-conflict-parties-near-ceasefire-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"The White House: Gaza Conflict Parties Near Ceasefire Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-a:r-7923197635770073379\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\">White House spokesperson John Kirby stated on Tuesday in an interview with Fox News that U.S. officials believe the parties involved in the Gaza conflict are nearing a ceasefire agreement.<\/div>\n<div id=\"m#msg-a:r-7923197635770073379-content\" class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">He said: \u201cWe believe\u2014and the Israelis have also said\u2014that we are close, no doubt about it. We believe this, but we remain cautiously optimistic&#8230; We\u2019ve been in this situation before without being able to reach the finish line.\u201d<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s office denied reports suggesting he was heading to Cairo as a ceasefire agreement in Gaza approached. This contradicted media reports claiming otherwise.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Additionally, Egypt\u2019s Al-Qahera News Channel cited an Egyptian source denying Netanyahu&#8217;s anticipated visit to Cairo.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Earlier, Reuters had quoted \u201cinformed sources\u201d on Tuesday, suggesting Netanyahu was on his way to Cairo for talks on Gaza. This followed reports from Al-Qahera News Channel that Egypt and Qatar were intensifying efforts with all parties to achieve a truce.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Separately, media sources stated that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas would travel directly from the Vatican to Cairo to join crucial discussions.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Egypt, Qatar, and the U.S. continue mediating between Israel and Hamas to reach an agreement to end the ongoing war in Gaza, which has persisted for more than a year.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In the meantime, Israeli attacks on Gaza continued, with at least 35 Palestinians killed today following strikes on two homes, according to sources at Al-Arabi Al-Ahli Hospital.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House spokesperson John Kirby stated on Tuesday in an interview with Fox News that U.S. officials believe the parties involved in the Gaza conflict are nearing a ceasefire agreement. He said: \u201cWe believe\u2014and the Israelis have also said\u2014that we are close, no doubt about it. We believe this, but we remain cautiously optimistic&#8230; We\u2019ve &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38830,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38823\/revisions\/38830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}