According to the Wall Street Journal, US officials expect no ceasefire in Israel and Hamas aggressions before Biden’s term in January.

On Thursday, the newspaper quoted rank contacts in the White House, the State Department, and the Pentagon, but their identities were not disclosed. “No deal is imminent. I’m not sure it ever gets done,” one of the US officials told the newspaper.

The officials told the Journal there were two critical obstacles to a deal: the number of Palestinian prisoners that Israel needs to release for every captive that Hamas has and the escalating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. In public, leading officials in Washington have insisted that they will go on striving for a deal.

“I can assure you that we do not think that deal is collapsing,” Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh told journalists on Thursday before the report in the Wall Street Journal. Two weeks ago, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that what has been negotiated regarding a ceasefire deal is about 90 percent.

Washington, for the past months, has been involved in mediation and has been collaborating with the mediators, Qatar and Egypt, to get Israel and Hamas to the final resolution.

In his briefing on May 31, Biden gave details of the ceasefire proposal, stating that they agreed with Israel on a phase ceasefire. Holding our presidential election on November 5th is Vice President Kamala Harris, challenging the Republican candidate, Donald Trump. The recent violence started almost a year ago yesterday when, on October 7, Hamas launched a violent attack on Israel in which 1 139 were killed, with control being taken of more than 200.(More)

Israel has responded to that by attacking the Hamas-governed territory, and in the process, the death toll has risen to at least 41,272 Palestinians, with 95,551 others injured. It has also caused the eviction of almost all the residents of 2. ,000, ‘the ideal’ – a hunger crisis as well as a genocide case at the World Court level.