{"id":8144,"date":"2024-07-23T11:53:56","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T06:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=8144"},"modified":"2024-07-23T11:53:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T06:53:57","slug":"biden-expected-to-meet-netanyahu-on-thursday-at-white-house-us-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/latest\/biden-expected-to-meet-netanyahu-on-thursday-at-white-house-us-official-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden expected to meet Netanyahu on Thursday at White House, US official says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON, July 23 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday at the White House, a U.S. official said on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden has been battling COVID-19 since last Wednesday but is returning to Washington on Tuesday from his beach house in Delaware. Netanyahu addresses a joint session of the U.S. Congress on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden and Netanyahu are expected to discuss ways to reach a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza, as well as Iran and other topics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It will be Biden&#8217;s first meeting with a foreign leader since he opted not to run for reelection and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as his successor as the Democratic presidential nominee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Harris is to meet Netanyahu this week separate from Biden&#8217;s meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Harris aide said she will stress to Netanyahu that it is time for the Gaza conflict to end in a way where &#8220;Israel is secure, all hostages are released, the suffering of Palestinian civilians in Gaza ends, and the Palestinian people can enjoy their right to dignity, freedom, and self-determination.&#8221;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, July 23 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. President Joe Biden is expected to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday at the White House, a U.S. official said on Monday. Biden has been battling COVID-19 since last Wednesday but is returning to Washington on Tuesday from his beach house in Delaware. Netanyahu addresses a joint [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":8146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,2623],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en_gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}