He US President Joe Bidenannounced this Friday the next air drop of packages with food and medicine in the Gaza Strip and opened the possibility of opening a maritime corridor to facilitate the entry of humanitarian aid into the enclave.
“The aid that is flowing into Gaza is not enough. There are innocent lives at stake. There are children’s lives at stake“said the president at the start of a meeting at the White House with the Italian Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni.
During his announcement, however, Biden He got confused and mentioned Ukraine when he was referring to Loop.
“In the coming days, we will join our friends in Jordan and others to provide airdrops of food and supplies to Ukraine. We will seek to open other avenues to Ukraine, including the possibility of a maritime corridor to deliver large quantities of food“, said.
The American president promised that he will insist that Israel also facilitate the entry of more trucks and the opening of new land routes for the entry of humanitarian aid to the enclave.
“There should be hundreds of trucks, not just a few. I won’t stay still. We are trying to do everything we can to get more assistance”, he expressed.
In addition, Biden He said he hopes “soon“an agreement is reached for the release of the Hamas hostages and a six-week ceasefire in the Israeli offensive on Loop that allows the entry of help to the entire Stripe.
In almost five months of war, more than 30,200 people have died in the Strip, including the 115 Gazans who died on Thursday in a chaotic incident during the distribution of food in the Gaza Cityin which Israel admitted to having opened fire, but attributes the death toll to an avalanche caused by hungry crowds that rushed against the trucks.
Source: Gestion
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