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Karoline Leavitt, White House press secretary
The White House wants to release detained hostages since the attacks of October 7. For this, it has not resorted to intermediaries: “It has the authority to talk to anyone.”
White House Secretary Karoline Leavitt does not provide details, but confirms that direct conversations are taking place between the US and Hamas.
“Dialogue and conversations with people around the world to defend the interests of the American people is something the president has proved, what he believes is a good faith effort to do what is right for the American people,” he says.
According to the “Discussions ongoing“As the White House calls them, they have in view of the return of Israeli hostages detained since the October 7 attack.
According to the international press, these conversations are “unpublished“, Since the usual is that this dialogue with Hamas is done through intermediaries. In fact, the US had never been involved with Hamas and classified the group as a terrorist organization in 1997.
There are still 5 American hostages detained by Hamas, one of which, Edan Alexander, 21, is alive.
They will have previously deocrated conversations with Israel before these dialogues, and US special envoy, Adam Boehler, says, “has authority to talk to anyone“When” there are American lives at stake, “the White House claims.
“Israel expressed to the United States its position regarding direct conversations with Hamas,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in turn, in turn.
The conversations come at a time when Netanyahu has approached Donald Trump, having chosen, in the last negotiated phase of ceasefire than with Hamas.
Remembering is also that the ceasefire in Gaza has been increasingly: the deadline for negotiations ended on March 1, and there are no agreements on the horizon.
