The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, confirms talks but declines to provide details<\/p>\n
US officials have held \u201congoing talks and discussions\u201d with Hamas officials, the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, confirmed on Wednesday. <\/p>\n
The talks come as the Israel-Hamas ceasefire<\/a> remains in the balance.<\/p>\n Leavitt declined to provide detail on the the substance of talks.<\/p>\n \u201cLook dialogue and talking to people around the world to do what\u2019s in the best interest of the American people, is something that the president has proven is what he believes is [a] good faith effort to do what\u2019s right for the American people,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Leavitt added that the Israel has been consulted about the direct engagement with Hamas officials.<\/p>\n She said that the US hostage envoy, Adam Boehler, \u201cdoes have the authority to talk to anyone\u201d despite the usual US ban on dealing with terrorist groups.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, confirms talks but declines to provide details US officials have held \u201congoing talks and discussions\u201d with Hamas officials, the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, confirmed on Wednesday. The talks come as the Israel-Hamas ceasefire remains in the balance. Leavitt declined to provide detail on the the substance … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}