This is the strongest gesture the United States could make to support Israel. Joe Biden is in Tel Aviv on Wednesday to provide his country’s support to its ally in its war against Hamas after the October 7 terrorist attack. Strike on the Gaza hospital, humanitarian aid for the inhabitants of the Palestinian enclave, American military support… The American president raised several subjects and notably warned Israel not to make American “mistakes” after September 11 .
A rocket out of control
Since Tuesday evening and the strike on a hospital in the Gaza Strip, Israel and Hamas have been passing the responsibility to each other. Joe Biden seems to have a strong opinion on the question attributing the strike which cost the lives of at least 200 people to an “out of control rocket” fired by a “terrorist group” in the Palestinian territory and thus validating the Israeli version, according to which it is a shot from Islamic Jihad, which has denied, like Hamas.
“I was deeply saddened and shocked by the explosion in the hospital in Gaza yesterday. And based on what I saw, it appears that this was carried out by the opposing party,” the American president declared in the morning, alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv. For its part, the Palestinian Authority “filed a case today before the ICC to investigate this crime. There needs to be an international investigation.”
Urgent humanitarian aid
The American president also spoke about the fate of the population of the Gaza Strip who have suffered daily bombings from the Israeli army for ten days, without access to water, food and electricity. . With border crossing points blocked, humanitarian aid cannot enter the enclave to provide assistance to civilians. Joe Biden then called for the entry of humanitarian aid “as quickly as possible” into the Gaza Strip, which Israel approved according to the American president.
“Israel will not prevent humanitarian aid from Egypt as long as it involves food, water and medicine for the civilian population in the south of the Gaza Strip,” said a statement from the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “Any supplies that reach Hamas will be neutralized.”
The release of hostages, “highest priority”
President Biden also considered that the release of hostages held in Gaza since the bloody Hamas attack on Israeli soil was “the highest priority” and announced that he would ask Congress “this week” for “unprecedented” aid. for the Israeli ally.
Avoiding the trap of terrorism
Joe Biden also called on Israel not to repeat the “mistakes” made by the United States after the attacks of September 11, 2001, which decided to launch a war “against terrorism” in Afghanistan only to get bogged down in a conflict that lasted twenty years and ended in failure.
Two-state solution
The American president also affirmed that the current war, triggered by the Hamas attack and which left thousands dead, strengthened his “determination” in favor of a two-state solution, Israeli and Palestinian.