{"id":104962,"date":"2024-04-01T15:00:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/us-israel-to-hold-virtual-talks-in-standoff-over-invading-rafah\/"},"modified":"2024-04-01T15:00:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T15:00:17","slug":"us-israel-to-hold-virtual-talks-in-standoff-over-invading-rafah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/us-israel-to-hold-virtual-talks-in-standoff-over-invading-rafah\/","title":{"rendered":"US, Israel to hold virtual talks in standoff over invading Rafah"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-04-01\/israel-gaza-7-gty-gmh-240401_1711977460931_hpMain.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Tents housing displaced Palestinians in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on the border with Egypt, Mar. 30, 2024. &#8212; Mohammed Abed\/AFP via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(WASHINGTON) &#8212; U.S. and Israeli officials will hold a virtual meeting Monday to continue to discuss the standoff over the Biden administration&#8217;s opposition to Israel invading the southern Gazan city Rafah, a U.S. official confirmed to ABC News.<\/p>\n<p>The official added that in-person follow-up meetings are anticipated after more work from experts.<\/p>\n<p>This, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week canceled a visit by an Israeli delegation in protest of the U.S. not blocking a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire in Israel&#8217;s war against Hamas in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, the White House said it was &#8220;disappointed&#8221; by that decision.<\/p>\n<p><em>Monday&#8217;s virtual meeting was first reported by Axios.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tents housing displaced Palestinians in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on the border with Egypt, Mar. 30, 2024. &#8212; Mohammed Abed\/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) &#8212; U.S. and Israeli officials will hold a virtual meeting Monday to continue to discuss the standoff over the Biden administration&#8217;s opposition to Israel<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/us-israel-to-hold-virtual-talks-in-standoff-over-invading-rafah\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}