'US working harder for ceasefire than Israeli government,' says Democratic senator

US Senator Chris Murphy, the leading Democrat on the Senate's Middle East subcommittee, told the Washington Post that "most days, it's pretty clear the Americans are working much harder [toward a ceasefire] than the Israeli government is working at this."

He added, “I think [a ceasefire] has been not a terribly likely outcome because of the political calculations that both Netanyahu and Hamas make. I give a lot of credit to the Biden team for persevering and trying to restart and re-energize these talks, even as both sides seem to throw up significant obstacles.”