The United States agrees with Israel that the fight against Hamas will take months, but officials are discussing the timetable for scaling back from high-intensity combat to more precise ways of targeting the militant group's leaders, a top U.S. envoy said Friday amid growing American unease about the mounting death toll in Gaza.
U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan planned to talk to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas later in the day about the besieged enclave's postwar future, which, according to a senior U.S. official, could include bringing back Palestinian security forces driven from their jobs in Gaza by Hamas in its 2007 takeover.
