US Deputy National Security Council Advisor Jon Finer says the Biden administration has not given Israel a deadline to wrap up its military operation in Gaza.
“We’re not in the business of being that prescriptive with a core partner and ally who has suffered such an egregious, appalling terrorist attack and who is responding in our view with what is absolutely necessary in their responsibility to reduce the threat to their own civilian population,” Finer says in response to a question on the matter during a fireside chat at the Aspen Security Forum.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken did, however, tell the war cabinet last week that Israel has weeks, not months, to prosecute its war against Hamas at the high intensity it has been since it launched its ground operation on October 27, an Israeli official told The Times of Israel.
