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John F. Kirby said that there should be humanitarian pauses so that aid to specific populations can get to them and that more people can be evacuated from Gaza. “We do support that. We do not support a cease-fire at this time.”
The message comes as President Biden revealed on Wednesday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel had previously agreed to halt shelling briefly on Oct. 20 to allow for the release of two Americans, Judith Raanan, 59, and her daughter, Natalie Raanan, 17.
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken will urge the Israeli government to agree to a series of brief cessations of military operations in Gaza to allow for hostages to be released safely and for humanitarian aid to be distributed, White House officials said on Thursday.
But Mr. Biden is under increasing pressure to respond to what humanitarian groups have called an urgent crisis for civilians inside Gaza, where food, water, medicine and fuel are in short supply. The strike on the refugee camp in Gaza left dozens of people dead, while Israeli officials said they killed a top Hamas leader.
At a fund-raiser in Minneapolis on Wednesday evening, a protester confronted Mr. Biden and demanded that he call for a cease-fire. I think we need a break, Mr. Biden said. Give time to get prisoners out during a pause.
The secretary of state stated that Israel must take all precautions to avoid harm to civilians. Food, medicine and water must be given to the people of Gaza and to the other areas where they are needed. It means civilians must be able to get out of harms way. Humanitarian pauses must be considered for these purposes.
Officials have said negotiations are continuing for the release of additional hostages, with representatives of Qatar serving as mediators. If there’s success in the negotiations, officials want Israel to stop its operations in the area where Hamas is going to release hostages.
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The concern, the officials said, is that the trucks need a way to safely get the aid to neighborhoods without risking being hit by an Israeli airstrike or caught in the middle of fighting on the ground. The official said that aid doesn’t help if residents of a neighborhood are too scared to come outside to get food or water.
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