US President Joe Biden Works on Proposal to Release Hostages in Gaza Strip

The White House confirmed on Tuesday that US President Joe Biden is working on a proposal to release the remaining hostages in the Gaza Strip, <a href="https://newsdirectory3com/kentucky-tornado-kills-could-reach-100-biden-immediate-federal-resources/” title=”Kentucky tornado kills 'could reach 100', Biden 'immediate federal resources'”>provide aid to the Palestinians and end the fighting.

Biden and his Vice President, Kamala Harris, met on Monday with the negotiating team for efforts to reach a cease-fire agreement between Israel and the Hamas movement in Gaza, the White House said in a statement.

The recent killing of six hostages, whose bodies were recovered by Israeli forces on Sunday, underscores the urgent need to reach an agreement to end the fighting in Gaza and release the remaining prisoners, according to National Security Council spokesman John Kirby.

Kirby emphasized that “Hamas is responsible for their deaths” and stressed the importance of completing this matter as soon as possible.

Israel’s “Forum of Families of Hostages and Missing Persons” condemned a Hamas video showing a hostage alive, before the Israeli army eventually found his body, as “psychological terror”.

The Israeli army announced on Saturday that it had found the bodies of hostages Carmel Gat, Aidan Ereshalmi, Hersh Goldberg Paulin, who holds American citizenship, Alexander Lobanov, who holds Russian citizenship, Almog Sarosi and Uri Danino, inside a tunnel in Rafah city, south of the Gaza Strip.