The President of the United States, Joe Bidenconsidered on Monday that the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not doing enough to achieve an agreement on the release of hostages in the hands of the Palestinian Islamist group Hamassince October 7th.
In response to a question from a journalist at the White Housewhere Biden held a meeting with American negotiators, on whether the Israeli leader was doing enough to reach an agreement, the Democrat responded: “No“.
Biden’s meeting with the negotiators on the agreement to release the kidnappers comes after the discovery on Saturday in Gaza of six hostages killedincluding a US citizen.
“President Biden is devastated and insulted for this crime, and reaffirmed the importance of holding Hamas leaders accountable for them,” said a statement from the White House at the end of the meeting.
Biden and the Vice President Kamala Harriswere briefed by negotiators on how the proposal put forward by the United States, Qatar and Egypt is progressing, the statement added. Harris, who will seek to succeed Biden as president in the November elections, declared that the killing of the six hostages was “A barbaric and brutal act by Hamas“.
Kamala Harris
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“Hamas leaders will pay for these crimes. A ceasefire and an agreement to release the hostages are long overdue. We need to bring them home and put an end to the suffering in Gaza,” the vice president wrote in a message in XThe meeting was attended by the Secretary of State, Antony Blinkenthe director of the CIA, William Burnsand the National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivanalong with other US officials.
The United States, along with Egypt and Qatarhave been pushing for months for a exchange of hostages and prisoners, and a ceasefire in the war in Gaza. The militants of Hamas They took 251 hostages during the October 7 attack in southern Israel that sparked the war; 97 of whom remain in Gaza and 33 of them dead, the statement said. Israeli Army.
Pressure mounts against Netanyahu
The Histadrut Trade Union Confederationcalled on Monday a strike after the Israeli army announced on Sunday that it had found the bodies of six hostages in the Gaza Strip, after almost eleven months of war between Hamas and Israel. The strike was not followed equally everywhere, while Tel Aviv and Haifa joined the mobilization, Jerusalem and Ashkelon decided not to join.
In addition to the US accusations, the British Labour Governmentfor its part, announced that will suspend 30 of the 350 licenses of export of arms to Israel, based on a “clear risk” that they could be used in violation of international humanitarian law.
In the absence of a possible ceasefire in the conflict, a protest began in Gaza vaccination campaign against polio, thanks to the implementation of “humanitarian pauses“between 06:00 and 14:00, for three days at various points in the Palestinian territory with the aim of immunize more than 640,000 children under 10 years old.
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