The United States will participate in humanitarian aid deliveries in the Israeli army-besieged Gaza Strip “in the coming days,” President Joe Biden said Friday.
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“In the coming days, together with our friends in Jordan and others, we will airdrop food and other goods into Gaza,” said the American president as he received Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the White House.
Referring to Thursday's killing during an aid delivery in Gaza, in which more than 110 people died, he spoke of a “tragic” event. “The loss of life is heartbreaking.”
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So far, the United States has not implemented such aid cuts because it considers their effectiveness to be limited.
But while the United Nations says Gaza is at risk of famine and awaits a ceasefire agreement that would allow more aid to arrive, the United States has made visible progress on the issue.
The American president once again took Israel to task and called on the country's authorities to allow more humanitarian aid into Gaza.
“We will insist to Israel that it facilitate the entry of more trucks and expand access routes to Gaza (…) There really is not enough aid reaching Gaza,” he said.
Jordan has carried out several operations to cut off humanitarian and medical aid since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip on October 7, particularly targeting a Jordanian field hospital in the north of the Palestinian territory.
With another slip of the tongue, Joe Biden spoke of aid cuts for Ukraine in the conflict with Russia and not for Gaza.
His advisers were quick to point out that these were the Palestinian territories.