(EFE).- The United States will continue to support Israel despite the high number of Palestinian civilian deaths in the Gaza Strip, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said this Monday.
“We have made it clear from the beginning that we will continue to support Israel against the brutal terrorist organization,” Kirby responded in a phone call to a reporter’s question about whether the death toll is having an impact on US thinking. USA on its support for Israel.
Kirby insisted that we must remember what happened on October 7, when Hamas “began massacring innocent people while they were in their homes and at a music festival.”
“That is the brutality that (Israel) faces and I think it is important for us to constantly remember who they are fighting and why they are fighting,” he added.
Therefore, he said, the United States will continue to ensure “that Israel has the tools and capabilities it needs” to defend itself, a position that President Joe Biden reiterated this Monday in a phone call to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“From the beginning we have made it clear that we will continue to support Israel against the brutal terrorist organization”
At the same time, Kirby assured, the US government will continue to insist in its talks with Israel on “the need to do so in a way that minimizes risks to civilian life and that minimizes collateral damage to the greatest extent possible.”
But the United States, he said, is not the one who decides “how they conduct their operations on the ground.”
Kirby explained that the Biden Government continues to work to carry out a humanitarian pause “in specific areas” to “introduce material and remove people, including the hostages” held by Hamas, more than two hundred.
“We believe that we are at the beginning of these talks, not the end,” said the spokesman, who reiterated the United States’ refusal to have a ceasefire.
This, Kirby opined, would only benefit the Islamist group Hamas, which de facto rules the Gaza Strip, and would allow it to regroup to carry out another attack like the one on October 7, which resulted in the deaths of 1,400 people (most of them civilians) and in the taking of 240 hostages who were taken to the Palestinian enclave.
Meanwhile, the Argentine Foreign Minister, Santiago Cafiero, spoke this Monday with a high command of the United Nations to reiterate the request for mediation in the Gaza Strip for the release of hostages, around twenty of them Argentine, and for a “humanitarian pause.” in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
“I spoke with Jean-Pierre Lacroix, assistant secretary general of UN Peacekeeping Operations. We advocate for the release of the hostages kidnapped by Hamas and for a humanitarian pause in Gaza that allows the arrival of aid, as urgent as it is necessary “Cafiero published on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
“We believe we are at the beginning of these conversations, not the end”
Argentina has been demanding the freedom of its citizens taken by the armed wing of the Islamist group Hamas and a de-escalation of the conflict, which began on October 7.
At the end of October, Cafiero had had a “fruitful conversation” with the Secretary General of the United Nations, the Portuguese António Guterres, whom he asked to intervene “for the release of the Argentine hostages in Gaza.”
For his part, Guterres “required humanitarian aid” from Argentina, for which Cafiero instructed the White Helmets to be available for this purpose.
It is estimated that around twenty Argentines living in Israel remain missing and another nine have died since the conflict restarted, where Israel bombed the Gaza Strip, causing nearly 10,000 deaths, 25,400 injuries and some 1.5 million. displaced, according to official Gazan data.
Dialogued with Jean-Pierre @Lacroix_UNDeputy Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations of @UN_es. We advocate for the release of the hostages kidnapped by Hamas and for a humanitarian pause in Gaza that allows the arrival of aid, as urgent as it is necessary. pic.twitter.com/vr5AV2FeEZ
— Santiago Cafiero (@SantiagoCafiero) November 6, 2023
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