White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced this at a briefing.
“They discussed how best to achieve the final defeat of Hamas in Gaza,” TASS quotes her as saying.
As she emphasized, Sullivan told Gallant that US President Joe Biden “fully supports” Israel’s right to self-defense in the face of “all threats, including from Iran.”
Earlier, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after negotiations with United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken, said that Israel would like to count on Washington’s support in the matter of conducting a ground operation in Rafah, but is ready to conduct it independently.