President Joe Biden told reporters Tuesday that it’s now up to Hamas to approve a Ramadan ceasefire halting the violence in Gaza.

Biden spent the weekend at Camp David preparing for his State of the Union address on Thursday and monitoring the slow progress toward a Gaza ceasefire. Recent 2024 polling shows Biden locked in a dead heat or even trailing former President Donald Trump ahead of the election in November, and the fighting in Israel is causing him to bleed support from the Democratic base.