CIA director, Biden adviser head to Mideast to push for hostage-ceasefire deal

CIA director Bill Burns and Brett McGurk, President Biden's top Middle East adviser, are traveling to the Middle East to push for a Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal, according to a US official and two other sources with direct knowledge of the matter, Report informs referring to Axios.

The trip is part of a full-court press by the Biden administration to get a breakthrough toward a deal, the sources said.

It comes as Israel has conducted new attacks near the al-Bureij refugee camp in Gaza.

The US officials' trip follows Biden's speech last Friday in which he laid out Israel's proposal for a deal that would lead to the release of hostages held by Hamas and a ceasefire in Gaza.