The USA wants to provide the civilian population in the Gaza Strip with aid deliveries from the air. The US President announced that they would join forces with Jordan and others and drop more food and aid supplies from the air.
After dozens of people died when food aid arrived in Gaza, US President Joe Biden announced that aid would be dropped over the Gaza Strip. “We must do more, and the United States will do more,” Biden said on Friday during a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the White House. In the coming days, the US wanted to join other countries such as Jordan in airdropping food and other aid.
The US also wanted to explore the possibility of a shipping corridor to bring large amounts of aid to the Gaza Strip, Biden said. He will also “insist” to the Israeli government that more aid convoys be allowed into the Palestinian territory.
Catastrophic situation in the Gaza Strip
The US President emphasized that the aid that has been delivered to the Gaza Strip so far is “far from enough.” “Innocent lives are at stake, children’s lives are at stake.”
According to National Security Council spokesman John Kirby, the US government is planning a large-scale operation that is expected to last weeks. Dropping relief supplies over such a densely populated area is “extremely difficult.” The Defense Ministry is facing a “difficult military operation” that must be carefully planned to ensure the safety of the US soldiers involved as well as that of Palestinian civilians.
There was a crush in the city of Gaza on Thursday as thousands of people gathered around a convoy of 38 aid trucks. The Israeli military said there were dozens of deaths and injuries, some of whom were run over by trucks. An army official acknowledged a “limited” number of shots fired by Israeli soldiers who felt “threatened.”
The Gaza Strip’s health ministry, which is controlled by the Islamist Palestinian organization Hamas, spoke of a “massacre” in which at least 115 people were killed and more than 750 others were injured.
International horror
A United Nations team reported on Friday that it had seen “numerous” people with “gunshot wounds” during a visit to Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ spokesman Stephane Dujarric said. “I don’t know if our team has examined the bodies of people who were killed.”
Thousands of victims
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The fatal incident caused international outrage and criticism. There have also been calls for a thorough investigation – as well as renewed calls for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
Biden said on Friday after his meeting with Meloni that he hoped for a ceasefire before the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. “I hope so, we’re still working very hard on it,” he said as he left the White House in response to a question from journalists. “We’re not there yet.” Ramadan begins on March 10th and 11th this year.
Biden said at the beginning of the week that he hoped for a ceasefire between the Israeli army and the radical Islamic Palestinian organization Hamas by next Monday. The president later admitted that this was not likely.
Difficult talks about ceasefire
The government of the Gulf emirate of Qatar has stated that the aim is for the ceasefire to come into force before the start of Ramadan. Along with the USA and Egypt, Qatar is one of the mediators in the difficult ceasefire negotiations.
The Gaza war has been going on for almost five months. Hundreds of Hamas fighters entered Israel on October 7 and committed atrocities primarily against civilians. According to Israeli information, they killed around 1,160 people and kidnapped around 250 others as hostages to the Gaza Strip.
In response to the Hamas attack, Israel has since taken massive military action in the Gaza Strip, with the declared aim of destroying Hamas. According to the Hamas Ministry of Health, which cannot be independently verified, more than 30,200 people have been killed since then.
Source: Stern
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