2023-10-25 10:31:38
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Homeland Today: Dr. Amr Hamzawy, Director of the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Center for International Peace, said that the administration of US President Joe Biden has asked Congress for financial appropriations to meet the possible displacement of Palestinians.
The speech by Hamzawi, a professor of political science, comes at a time when the Israeli occupation army’s aggression against Gaza is escalating, with Israeli calls to transfer Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to the neighboring Egyptian Sinai, which the Arab countries have rejected. Fearing new permanent displacement and the possibility of liquidating the Palestinian cause.
Hamzawi explained, on his Facebook page, that “the office of US President Joe Biden directed to Congress, specifically to the House of Representatives, on October 20, 2023, a request to approve “additional financial appropriations” worth $106 billion for the purposes of protecting national security. The US and the assistance of its allies, Ukraine and Israel.”
He attached to his post a link to the request submitted by Biden’s office and published on the White House website.
“On page 40 of the request, Biden proposes to allocate $3 billion and 495 million dollars to US State Department programs “to assist in the areas of immigration and asylum,” and refers in the second paragraph of page 40 to assistance to Ukrainian refugees and then in the third paragraph to the humanitarian situation in Israel. And the Palestinian territories, and here is the horse’s stud,” according to Hamzawi.
He added that Biden’s request states that “the additional appropriations for immigration and asylum will be used – and I translate here literally from the published text: “to support civilians displaced and harmed by the current conflict, including Palestinian refugees in Gaza and the West Bank, as well as to deal with the potential needs of the people of Gaza who will flee to neighboring countries.” .
He continued: “Then, in the third paragraph of page 40, the talk continues about the humanitarian needs of Palestinian refugees and the expected crisis, and that – I translate literally again: “This crisis may lead to cross-border displacement and escalating humanitarian needs in the region, and the required funding can be used to deal with the needs outside Gaza.” “.
Forced displacement
Hamzawi stressed that “the language used in Biden’s request is extremely dangerous and allows for the forced displacement of the people of Gaza out of it and the entire Palestinian people out of their lands.”
He added, “This language, and the voices within the White House that are completely biased toward Israel and stand behind the talk of cross-border displacement and asylum, do not mind being involved in the crime of violating Egyptian sovereignty and the crime of liquidating the Palestinian cause at our expense in the form of forced displacement of the people of Gaza to Sinai.”
He said, “Our responsibility today, the people, state institutions, government, and civil society, is to declare complete rejection of any and every American-Israeli effort to violate our national sovereignty and invade our land in Sinai and to show that the popular position, like the official position, is sympathetic to Palestine and the right of its people to self-determination and a decent life.” But in its independent state and on its land, not on the land of Egypt.”
Since the outbreak of the war, the United States has provided strong support for Israel, as Biden visited it on October 18 to show solidarity, and Washington sent naval vessels and military forces to the eastern Mediterranean, in a message of deterrence to prevent any other parties from interfering in the conflict on behalf of the Palestinians.
Ground attack
In Gaza, which has an area of about 365 square kilometers, about 2.3 million Palestinians live in extremely deteriorating living conditions. As a result of the ongoing Israeli siege of the Gaza Strip since the Hamas movement won the legislative elections in 2006.
Since the start of the current war, intense occupation army raids have forced about 1.5 million Palestinians to flee their homes, especially from northern Gaza to the south, amid warnings of possible forced displacement out of Gaza, especially with increasing indications of an imminent ground attack, in the hope of eliminating the movement. “agitation”.
On October 7, Hamas launched Operation “Al-Aqsa Flood” against Israel from Gaza. In response to “daily Israeli attacks against the Palestinian people and their sanctities, especially Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem.”
For the 19th day in a row, the Israeli occupation army launched air strikes on Gaza on Wednesday, killing a total of 5,791 Palestinians as of Tuesday, including 2,360 children, 1,292 women and 295 elderly people, and wounding 16,297 others, according to the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip. There are also an unspecified number of people missing under the rubble.
During the same period, Hamas killed more than 1,400 Israelis and injured 5,132, according to the Israeli Ministry of Health. On October 7, the movement captured more than 200 Israelis, some of whom have dual citizenship, including high-ranking military personnel, and wants to exchange them with more than 6,000 Palestinian prisoners, including children and women, in Israeli prisons.
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