WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden is expected to speak with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday amid heightened tensions between the two administrations, according to officials from the two administrations.
The two leaders last spoke a month ago, on February 15.
National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan is expected to speak at a White House press briefing on Monday and discuss the call between Biden and Netanyahu. The conversation comes a few days after the highest-ranking Jewish official in the United States, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, called on Israel to hold new elections for the Israeli prime minister.
Meanwhile, the White House He is considering how to respond if the Israeli government ignores the administration’s warnings Not to launch a ground invasion of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip on the border with Egypt, without a credible plan for Palestinian civilians.
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