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Published 15 Dec, 2023 08:15am

White House official discusses moves to ‘shift’ Israeli attacks on Gaza to focused operations

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan has discussed moves to shift Israel’s attacks on Gaza to lower-intensity operations focused on high-value targets during his visit to Israel, Reuters reports.

But it would be “irresponsible” to give specific time frames for such a change, a senior administration official told reporters.

“There was a discussion in these meetings and also in our prior meetings, and in calls between the president and the prime minister, on kind of a shift in emphasis from high-tempo clearance operations, high-intensity clearance operations, which are ongoing now, to ultimately lower intensity focus on high-value targets, intelligence-driven raids, and those sorts of more narrow, surgical military objectives,” said the official, who asked not to be identified.

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