BENJAMIN NETANYAHU has agreed under US pressure to open up daily humanitarian pauses in Gaza but vowed no let-up of Israel's offensive until the Hamas-run territory was "demilitarised, deradicalised and rebuilt".
The Israeli prime minister's offer of a daily four-hour window stopped short of President Joe Biden's demand for a three-day cessation, in a bid to negotiate the release of nearly 240 hostages held by the Palestinian terror group.
The president said there was "no possibility" of a formal ceasefire at the moment, and said it had "taken a little longer" than he hoped for Israel to agree to the humanitarian pauses.
Mr Biden's National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said that Israel was also opening a second corridor for civilians to flee the areas around Gaza City that are the current focus of its military campaign against Hamas.
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