SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA NOVEMBER 16: US President Joe Biden speaks during the APEC CEO Summit at Moscone West on November 16, 2023 in San Francisco, California. The APEC summit will take place in San Francisco and last until November 17th.
Gaza It is West Bank should “reunite” under a. Palestinian authority “strengthened,” said the American President, Joe Bidenin a column published this Saturday the 18th, in the midst of the war between Israel and the Islamist movement Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip. “As we fight for peace, Gaza and the West Bank should be reunited under a single governing structure, essentially a strengthened Palestinian Authority, as we all work toward a twostate solution,” Biden wrote in The Washington Post Allusion to this At the same time, a Palestinian state emerged Israel. Washington, Israel’s main ally, gave the country unconditional support in its response to the shocking attack Hamas, in which 1,200 people, most of them civilians, were killed in Israeli territory on October 7. About 240 people were taken hostage and taken to Gaza.
However, as the death toll from Israeli retaliatory bombings and ground operations in Gaza rises (12,300, according to the Hamas government, including more than 5,000 children), the United States is expressing concern and raising questions about the future of Gaza after Hamas’s defeat . “A twostate solution is the only way to ensure the longterm security of both the Israeli and Palestinian people. “While it may seem like the future has never been so far away, this crisis has made it more urgent than ever,” Biden wrote.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not reject Biden’s plan, but responded during a news conference that the Palestinian Authority “in its current form is not capable of taking responsibility for Gaza.” Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas did not condemn the Hamas attack, but his top ministers celebrated it, Netanyahu accused. “We cannot have a civil authority in Gaza that supports terror, encourages terror, pays for terror and teaches terror,” he asserted. Abbas, in turn, appealed to Biden to use his “important influence” on Israel “to intervene immediately to stop this humanitarian catastrophe, this genocide against our innocent people.” At the beginning of November, the Palestinian president linked the return of the Palestinian Authority to the Gaza Strip to a “political agreement” that also includes the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. “The Gaza Strip is an integral part of the State of Palestine and we will fully fulfill our responsibilities within the framework of a global political solution,” he said at the reception of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Ramallah.
In his column, the American president also threatened sanctions against settlers who commit acts of violence against Palestinians in the West Bank. Tensions are also high in this territory occupied by Israel since 1967, where around 200 Palestinians have died at the hands of Israeli settlers and soldiers since October 7, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. “I have urged the Israeli leadership that extremist violence against Palestinians in the West Bank must stop and those who perpetrate violence must be held accountable,” the American president said.
*With information from AFP