US Vice President Kamala Harris called for a six-week temporary ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, negotiated by Israel and Hamas, to enter into force “immediately.”
“Given the massive escalation of suffering in Gaza, there must be an immediate ceasefire for at least the next six weeks,” [o plano] “This matter is currently on the table,” Kamala Harris said in Selma, Alabama, where she gave a speech commemorating the civil rights march known as “Bloody Sunday.”
Joe Biden's right-hand man said the images coming from Gaza are devastating.
He added: “We saw women giving birth to malnourished children, with little or no medical care, and children dying from malnutrition and dehydration.”
He pointed out, “The Israeli government must do more to significantly increase the flow of aid. There are no excuses.”
Harris is scheduled to meet Monday at the White House with Israeli Defense Cabinet member Benny Gantz, a meeting in which she is expected to reaffirm the US position seeking a temporary ceasefire to bring more humanitarian aid to Gaza and release prisoners. Hostages.
According to the US, Israel has “more or less” accepted a proposed six-week ceasefire in Gaza, while Hamas has not yet accepted “a specific category of hostages at risk.”
A six-week ceasefire would allow the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip and the flow of humanitarian aid.
The United States boosted humanitarian aid deliveries this weekend, distributing nearly 38,000 meals via military aircraft, as the White House expects Israel and Palestine to adhere to a six-week ceasefire agreement before Ramadan begins on March 10.
In the October 7 attack by the Islamist Hamas movement on territory near the Gaza Strip, about 1,200 people were killed, most of them civilians, but also nearly 400 military personnel, according to official Israeli figures.
About 240 civilians and soldiers were kidnapped, and Israel indicates that more than 100 remain in the Gaza Strip, which has been controlled by Hamas since 2007.
In response, Israel, which had promised to destroy the Palestinian Islamic movement, bombed the Gaza Strip, where, according to the latest report from the Hamas-led local government, 30,320 people have so far been killed – mostly women, children and wounded. Teenagers – – and injured at least 71,533 people, most of them civilians as well.
Local authorities estimate that about 8,000 bodies remain under the rubble.
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