A senior White House official confirmed that the United States assisted Israel in its hostage rescue mission over the past weekend without sending troops on the ground.
National security adviser Jake Sullivan spoke with multiple news outlets on June 9, a day after the Israel Defense Forces led an operation that rescued four Hamas-held hostages in Gaza.
The United States, he said in an ABC News interview, had been working on the Israeli hostage mission "For months," but he added, "We didn't have any U.S. forces on the ground."
Mr. Sullivan told CNN that there was no confirmation any Israeli hostages died in the rescue attempt, which Hamas has claimed.
Israeli officials also described Hamas's claims that hostages were killed as false.
"The best way to get all of the hostages home and to protect Palestinian civilians is to end this war. And the best way to end this war is for Hamas to say 'yes' to the deal President Biden announced and that Israel has accepted, which lays out a roadmap to an enduring cease-fire and the return of all hostages," Mr. Sullivan said June 9.
President Biden welcomed the return of the four Israeli hostages rescued in Gaza.
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