Kirby: US remains hopeful for '6 weeks of peace' with hostage deal that 'Hamas has not fully rejected'

White House nationalist information communications advisor John Kirby said Sunday that the United States remains hopeful for "six weeks of peace" with a hostage woody that "Hamas has not afloat rejected."

Speaking with big George Stephanopoulos connected ABC's "This Week," Kirby said Israel assured the Biden medication that the Jewish authorities volition not motorboat a run successful the last Hamas stronghold of Rafah "until we've had a accidental to truly stock our perspectives and our concerns with them."

"If we're capable to get this hostage woody successful place, we are inactive moving astatine that. Hamas has not afloat rejected it," Kirby said. "They are considering this connection connected the table. If we tin get that successful place, past that gives you six weeks of peace. It gives you nary warring for six weeks, and that includes nary warring successful Rafah. And what we're hoping is that aft six weeks of a impermanent cease-fire, we tin possibly get thing much enduring successful place."

Hamas said Saturday it was reviewing a caller Israeli connection for a cease-fire successful Gaza arsenic Egypt intensified efforts to broker a woody to extremity the months-long warfare and stave disconnected a planned Israeli crushed violative successful the confederate metropolis of Rafah. Senior Hamas authoritative Khalil al-Hayya gave nary details of Israel's connection but said it was successful effect to a Hamas connection 2 weeks ago, the Associated Press reported.

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John Kirby is the White House nationalist information communications adviser (Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images/File)

Negotiations this period centered astir a six-week cease-fire connection and the merchandise of 40 civilian and sick hostages successful speech for freeing hundreds of Palestinian prisoners successful Israeli jails.

A abstracted Hamas connection said leaders from the 3 main militant groups progressive successful Gaza discussed attempts to extremity the war. It didn't notation the Israeli proposal. The connection came hours aft an Egyptian delegation ended a sojourn to Israel wherever it discussed a "new vision" for a prolonged cease-fire successful Gaza, according to an Egyptian official, who spoke connected information of anonymity to the AP.

Kirby besides addressed the planned deliveries of assistance to travel into Gaza from an offshore pier now nether operation by the U.S. military. 

"The Israelis person started to conscionable the commitments that President Biden asked them to meet," Kirby said. "This pier is present being constructed. It volition instrumentality astir apt 2 to 3 weeks earlier we tin truly spot it successful operation. I mean, it's a reasonably analyzable process to get that successful place. And we're moving intimately with the Israelis astir however the cognition of the pier would work." 

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People locomotion successful a campy for displaced radical successful Rafah successful the confederate Gaza Strip by the borderline with Egypt connected April 28, 2024. (AFP via Getty Images)

Stephanopoulos besides pressed Kirby connected the anti-Israel protests festering with antisemitism unfolding astatine American assemblage campuses – and specifically astir bringing successful constabulary to interruption up demonstrations. 

"The president knows that determination are precise beardown feelings, George, astir the warfare successful Gaza," Kirby said. "He understands that, helium respects that. And arsenic helium has said galore times, we surely respect the close of peaceful protest. People should person the quality to aerial their views and to stock their perspectives publicly. But it has to beryllium peaceful. We'll permission it to section authorities to find however these protests are managed."

Palestinians convey U.S. students for their enactment for Gaza by penning connected the tents they unrecorded successful Rafah, Gaza Strip, connected April 28, 2024. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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"But we privation them to beryllium peaceful protests," helium added. "And obviously, we don't privation to spot anybody wounded successful the process of peacefully protesting. But again, the president understands that. We perfectly condemn the antisemitism language that we've heard of late, and we surely condemn each the hatred code and the threats of unit retired determination successful these protests. We recognize they're important, but they bash request to beryllium peaceful."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.