WASHINGTON: US President Joe Biden has announced that the US Defence Chief and the US national security adviser are heading to the Middle East to discuss the current situation in the Gaza Strip, Arab media reported on Tuesday. However, the US President did not specify which nations US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin will visit during his tour to the Middle East.
Meanwhile, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution Tuesday demanding a truce in Gaza — taking the lead from the paralyzed UNSC, and piling pressure on Israel and US. The UNGA, which includes all 193 UN member countries, voted 153 in favor of the resolution while ten countries including the United States, Israel and Austria voted against, and 23 abstained. Predictably, the US and Israel were among the countries to vote against the resolution in the UNGA. Also among them were two small pacific islands –Nauru and Micronesia– with the combined population of fewer than 130,000 people. Austria, Czech Republic, Guatemala, Israel, Liberia, Micronesia, Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay and the United States voted against the resolution in the UN General Assembly. The resolution passed following the UNSC responsible for international peace and security has repeatedly failed to pass such a resolution. Earlier, on Friday, the US exercised its veto to stop the latest draft text calling for a truce in the Gaza Strip.
Top US officials Heading to Middle East to Discuss Situation in Gaza: US President
His remarks come as earlier he admitted that that Israel is losing support across the world and Benjamin Netanyahu has to change his conservative government. Biden also admitted that the current government of Israel is the most conservative government in the history of Israel. He also disclosed that the current government of Israel does not want a two-state solution to end Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Biden was of the view that Netanyahu “has to change” his government to “find a longstanding solution to the Israeli-Palestinian crisis. Biden’s statement came following Netanyahu also admitted Tuesday that there is disagreement with Biden’s administration on Gaza Strip.
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Israeli tanks and warplanes relentlessly pounded the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, exacerbating a dire humanitarian crisis as the UN described the region as ‘hell on earth’ due to Israeli brutal bombardments. The current Israeli bombardments have not only killed thousands of innocent Palestinians but have also severely disrupted aid distribution, leaving Gazans grappling with hunger and disease.
