Reports: US officials warn Israel it has limited time before support for war wanes

US President Joe Biden’s administration is facing increased pressure in Washington to change course on Israel’s war against the Hamas terror group in Gaza and to publicly call for a ceasefire, US media reported on Friday, as the administration grows wary that images of death and destruction in the Strip may isolate the country on the global stage.

According to CNN, top Biden administration officials have been increasingly warning Israel that it will become more and more challenging to pursue Jerusalem’s goal of toppling Hamas in Gaza, where the group has been in power since 2007, due to the international outcry, and that there is limited time to do so with full US support.

The outlet quoted unnamed sources who alleged that Biden’s close advisers believe it may be a matter of weeks before the White House is compelled to call for a ceasefire.

Israel’s war against Hamas was triggered on October 7 when some 3,000 Hamas terrorists stormed into southern Israel, killing 1,400 people and taking at least 240 hostages, most of them civilians.

The vast majority of those killed as gunmen seized border communities were civilians — including babies, children and the elderly. Entire families were executed in their homes, and over 260 were slaughtered at an outdoor festival, many amid horrific acts of brutality by the terrorists, in what Biden has called “the worst massacre of the Jewish people since the Holocaust.” READ MORE