The American president, Joe Biden, and the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, maintained this Wednesday a 50-minute telephone conversation in which the vice president, Kamala Harris, joined.
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The White House announced in a brief statement that Harris participated in the call that Biden and Netanyahu had planned and in which the main topic was expected to be how Israel will respond to the attack that Iran launched on October 1 on its territory with nearly 200 missiles.
For its part, Netanyahu’s office released a photo in which the prime minister can be seen with his team during the conversation with Biden.
According to The Times of Israelthe call lasted 50 minutes. Neither the prime minister’s office nor the White House have yet released its contents.
This is the first conversation between Biden and Netanyahu since August 21.
Since then, Israel has intensified the military confrontation it had maintained with the Shiite group Hezbollah since the start of the war in Gaza, with bombings not only on its northern border but also in cities such as Beirut, and has also launched what it calls a ” limited” ground offensive in southern Lebanon against Hezbollah.
In those bombings, Israel has killed the leader of Hezbollah for three decades, Hasan Nasrallahand just this Tuesday Netanyahu announced that he had also eliminated Hashem Safi al Din, who had supposedly been chosen to succeed him.
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