Joe Biden said Tuesday that he asked Benjamin Netanyahu for a break in the fighting during a phone call yesterday, Axios reports.

US and Israeli officials told Axios that President Biden said a three-day pause could help secure the release of the hostages from Gaza.

The proposal, which is being discussed by the US, Israel and Qatar, calls for Hamas to release 10 to 15 hostages and use the break to verify the identities of all the hostages and hand over a list of the names of the people it is holding, a US official said. news site.

Earlier, the White House reported that Biden and the Prime Minister of Israel discussed “the possibility of tactical pauses … to release potential hostages.”

Netanyahu says he will not cease fire

Israel’s armed forces (IDF) are increasing their pressure on Hamas and have killed “many terrorists”, including underground ones, Netanyahu said at a conference in Tel Aviv on Tuesday night. “Hamas is now finding that we’re going where they didn’t think we were going to go.”

The prime minister said that Israeli forces “destroyed the Hamas headquarters, tunnels and bases”

Regarding the possibility of a ceasefire, he says: “We will not have a ceasefire unless the hostages go home.”

“Israel will not stop. We will completely destroy Hamas’ ability to rule Gaza,” he added.

The government has evicted more than 100,000 people in Israel from their homes, he said.