Biden speaks to Netanyahu, Tamim and Sisi as Gaza ceasefire talks near deal

US national security advisor Jake Sullivan told reporters on Monday that President Joe Biden has made calls to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Qatar's Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, and is expected to speak to Egypt's President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi later in the day as ceasefire talks on Gaza appear to have made a breakthrough. 

The deal "includes prisoner exchange for hostages. It includes a surge of humanitarian assistance once the guns go quiet, which we will be able to move trucks much more rapidly," Sullivan said.

"Since June, we've had multiple efforts to close the deal. We've come close and haven't been able to get across the line. There have been some details, particularly around the formulas with respect to prisoner releases [and] the exact disposition of Israeli forces and other things along those lines, those details we have been handling away at week after week, month after month, and now in the last period, just over the course of the last several weeks, we have accelerated that effort to try to bring this to a close," he added.