The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is due to meet the US president, Joe Biden, and the vice-president, Kamala Harris, on Thursday to discuss a potential ceasefire in the nine-month-old conflict in Gaza. The talks between the uneasy allies are set to take place at the White House amid unprecedented political turmoil in the United States and as Netanyahu is under domestic pressure to rescue the more than 120 hostages still being held captive after Hamas’s 7 October attack. Biden is expected to put pressure on Netanyahu to commit at least to the first stage of a three-part deal that...