President Joe Biden and Israeli President Isaac Herzog met at the White House on Tuesday afternoon to discuss the war against Hamas and Hezbollah and other Middle East concerns.

Sitting beside US President Joe Biden in the Oval Office, President Isaac Herzog begins his remarks in front of reporters by noting the tragic events in Israel earlier today in northern Israel, where two people in the border town of Nahariya were killed in a Hezbollah rocket attack and a kindergarten was hit in a drone attack in Haifa.

Cease-fire talks mediated by the United States, Qatar and Egypt have repeatedly stalled, as have parallel efforts by the U.S. and others to halt the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon.