This Saturday, a woman interrupted the American President. Joe Biden shouts in defense of the Gaza Strip during an event in Washington.
“Let Gaza live, ceasefire now!”shouted a protester as Biden tried to give a speech at the annual dinner of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest pressure group in the US advocating for the LGTBIQ+ collective.
Hearing the screams, the president interrupted his speech: but he said that he could not hear what the woman was saying.
“No matter what she says, I can’t hear her.” Biden said this.
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The president’s speech was dedicated to protecting the rights of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people, although At one point he did talk about escalating tensions in the Gaza Strip. repeating what he had already said on other occasions during the week.
“We are witnessing the worst massacre of the Jewish community since the Holocaust. “We are witnessing a humanitarian crisis in Gaza” Biden said.
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Moreover, he believed that the majority of people living in the Gaza Strip “innocent Palestinian families “They have nothing to do with Hamas.”
On Saturday, October 7, Hamas attacked several Israeli cities, to which Israel responded by declaring a state of war and bombing the Gaza Strip, which is worst climb in decades Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Israeli army Looks like they are now preparing for a ground invasion and asked the 1.1 million Palestinians living in the northern Gaza Strip to move to the south.
The United States did not question this ultimatum to the Israeli army. but US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, touring the region, reaffirmed Washington’s commitment to minimizing harm to civilians.
The Arab community strongly condemned this mass displacement of Palestinians in the Gaza StripUN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and European Union (EU) High Representative Josep Borrell called on Israel to “seriously reconsider” the evacuation.
(according to information from EFE)