CIA Director Burns heads to Europe to kickstart stalled Gaza truce talks

Al-Monitor ^

[Tench_Coxe]

CIA Director Bill Burns will meet in Europe with his Israeli counterpart, David Barnea, in the coming days in a bid to revive stalled indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas. Egyptian and Qatari mediators may also attend the meeting.

The news was first reported by Axios' Barak Ravid on Thursday, citing US and Israeli officials, and comes weeks after ongoing diplomatic efforts mediated by the United States, Egypt and Qatar to reach a truce and hostage-release deal in Gaza appeared to hit an impasse.

Burns has been the lead US negotiator trying to broker a truce between the two warring sides in recent months.

[rexthecat]

Isn’t the CIA director supposed to be working on spy stuff? Don’t we have diplomats for this??

[Maris Crane]

I have no idea who this Burns person is.

He is head of the CIA??????

Haven’t seen him, never heard what he had to say.

Is he somebody who is related to Pedo Joe?

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