Netanyahu’s advisers to meet with Blinken and top White House adviser

Senior advisers to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan in Washington on Thursday.

The meeting is scheduled for today at 3pm (7pm GMT), according to a senior State Department official, and comes after the US cancelled a previous meeting with Israeli officials following Netanyahu's public criticism of the Biden administration.

“It will be a wide-ranging discussion about everything that’s going on with the Gaza war, our support to Israel, our efforts to get a better sense of how they’re trying to prosecute operations against Hamas, as well as continuing to talk about the importance of closing this deal,” said White House spokesperson John Kirby.

An unnamed White House official told Reuters that the two top US officials will be meeting with Israeli National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi and Minister for Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer as a larger, more formal “strategic dialogue”.