Middle East crisis live: Biden voices hope for two-state solution despite Netanyahu comments

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US and Israeli leaders speak a day after Netanyahu again rejected notion of Palestinian statehood, their first call in almost a month

Israel continued its strikes in the south of the Gaza Strip on Saturday after the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the US president, Joe Biden, discussed their differences over a post-war future for Palestinians which have suggested a rift between the two allies.

Agence France-Presse reports that witnesses said the Israeli bombardment was again focused overnight on Khan Younis, the largest city in Hamas-controlled Gaza’s south, although Palestinian media also reported intense fire around Jabalia in the north early on Saturday.

There are a number of types of two-state solutions. There’s a number of countries that are members of the UN that ... don’t have their own militaries. And so, I think there’s ways in which this could work.

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