2024-03-01 20:25:26
He United States’s president, Joe Bidenannounced this Friday that Washington will join “in the coming days” the campaign of Jordan and other countries to drop humanitarian aid to Gaza from military planes.
“We need to do more and we are going to do more“said the president in the Oval Office just before beginning a bilateral meeting at the White House with the Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni.
The Democrat has assured that in addition to this air campaign they will continue trying to open new avenues delivery of food and other supplies and has said it is exploring the possibility of establishing a maritime corridor.
In Ukraine has said twiceanother of the topics that I was going to address with Meloni, when I wanted to say Gaza.
“There are no excuses”
“The aid coming into Gaza is far from enough, we would have to be putting in hundreds of trucks,” Biden has also said, who has also declared that “the lives of innocents and the lives of children are at stake” and has promised that he will continue “insisting that Israel facilitate more trucks and more routes”, adding: “There are no excuses”.
Before the announcement, the American president had referred to what happened the day before, when 112 Palestinians died and more than seven hundred were injured in an Israeli attack against a food delivery point in Gaza. “Was a tragic and alarming event“, said Biden, who has assured that “the loss of life breaks the heart” and has recognized that “people are desperate”. “Innocent people aretrapped in a terrible warunable to feed their families and the response was already seen when they tried to get help,” he said.
Shortly afterwards, at the daily White House press conference, the spokesman for the National Security Council, John Kirby, assured that The US has asked the Israeli government to investigate. “Our assessment is that they are taking it seriously and studying it to prevent tragedies like this from happening again,” Kirby said.
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