US President Joe Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday he expected a "
de-escalation today
" towards a ceasefire.
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The president told the prime minister that he expected a significant de-escalation today towards a ceasefire
," the White House said in an account of the telephone exchange between the two men.
After a ninth night of violence, Israeli airstrikes intensified on the Gaza Strip on Wednesday. Israel said it was waiting "for
the right moment
" to end its strikes on the Palestinian enclave.
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