News Conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room

Karine Jean-Pierre, White House press secretary, speaks during a news conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, DC on Monday, March 18, 2024. Sullivan said US President Joe Biden asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to send a team of military, intelligence and humanitarian officials to Washington to discuss Israel's planning for Rafah and to lay out an alternative approach that would target Hamas and secure the Egypt-Gaza border without a full-scale invasion Photo by Al Drago/UPI