Biden voices support for ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in call to Netanyahu

US President Joe Biden (AP/Evan Vucci)

US President Joe Biden has expressed support for a ceasefire between Israel and Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers in a call to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

But Mr Biden stopped short of demanding an immediate stop to the eight days of Israeli air strikes and Hamas rocket barrages that have killed more than 200 people, most of them Palestinian.