The American president Joe Biden and the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu they will discuss by phone later in the day, a US official said.
The US president said he was “outraged” on Tuesday at the deaths of seven aid workers in Israeli airstrikes in Strip of Gaza and ruled in a statement released by his White House services that the Israel is not doing “enough” to protect volunteers who go to provide aid to the civilian population of the Palestinian enclave, which is at risk of widespread famine, according to the UN.
THE previous conversation of the two leaders became the March 18thin atmosphere already tense. Since then the divergences of the two allies seem to are magnified.
The US has warn repeatedly Israel against launching a full-scale ground offensive in Rafah, on the closed border with Egypt, where some 1.5 million displaced Palestinians have taken refuge.
The two governments had promised to discuss the issue, but their talks only began digitally this week after an Israeli delegation’s trip to Washington was canceled last week.
Following the unprecedented attack by Hamas’ military arm against southern sectors of Israeli territory on October 7, Joe Biden offered unqualified support for Israel’s military operations in the Palestinian territories.
The American president refuses at this stage to pose conditions for providing US military aid to Israel, while demanding that any ceasefire be accompanied by the release of Hamas hostages remaining in the Gaza Strip.
Pressure on Joe Biden grew even more after Israeli airstrikes killed seven US NGO volunteers World Central Kitchenat a time when enormous difficulties were already being recorded in the distribution of food to those trapped in Gaza.
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