The president of United States, Joe Biden, reiterated this Sunday that The “only” way to guarantee security for Israelis and Palestinians is the “two-state” solutionafter a new exchange of hostages and prisoners between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas, on the third day of truce.
“A two-state solution is the only way to guarantee the long-term security of both the Israeli and Palestinian people”Biden said on social network X.
“To ensure that both Israelis and Palestinians can live in equal conditions of freedom and dignity. We will not stop working to achieve this goal,” he added. Biden argued in this regard on repeated occasions.
Hostage release
The president’s statements came hours after he celebrated the release of 17 hostages detained by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in its attack on Israel on October 7.
Among them, highlighted the release of the 4-year-old American girl named Abigail. “She is free and is already in Israel,” he said today in a speech from the state of Massachusetts (northeast of the United States), according to the AFP news agency. 17 hostages kidnapped by Hamas were released today in exchange for 39 Palestinian prisoners.
Also today, Biden He said his goal is to “guarantee” that the Ceasefire of four days agreed between Israel and Hamas “continue beyond tomorrow,” when the truce expires because “it is giving results that save lives,” in reference to the release of hostages and the entry of humanitarian aid to the Palestinian enclave.
“We have worked urgently to increase aid to Loop during the lull in fighting. “We have moved approximately 200 aid trucks to Gaza each day, loaded with food, water, medicine, fuel and cooking gas,” Biden added in X.
More than 14,800 Palestinians and 1,200 Israelis dead
On October 7, militants from Hamas and the Islamic Jihad group infiltrated Israel from the Gaza Strip, killed 1,200 people and kidnapped around 240, including around twenty Argentines.
More than 14,800 Palestinians, including some 6,000 children, have since been killed in the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip, and 1.7 million of the enclave’s 2.3 million have been forced to flee their homes due to violence, according to Hamas.
In 1948, the United Nations approved resolution 181, which established the creation of two States, one for the Israeli people and the other for the Palestinian people.
However, after a military victory, Israel occupies the West Bank and East Jerusalem, two of the territories assigned to the Palestinians for the creation of their State, while maintaining an air, sea and land blockade on the Gaza Strip. the third Palestinian territory.
Source: Ambito
