In a dramatic U-turn from the appeals for candor, President Joe Biden approved an extra $3.5 billion in funds. A decision to provide $5 billion in military aid to Israel only several hours before the IDF strike on a school housing refugees in Gaza. The attack took place in a school which is in a safe area in Gaza City, Tabeen School and killed not less than a hundred Palestinians, most of who were at the mosque within the school.
The Israeli military said that they were attacking what it said was a Hamas command center in the school and stated that they have measures had been taken to prevent civilian loss. Nevertheless, the strike has been described as one of the bloodiest of the continuing conflict that has now entered the tenth month. This has been frowned upon, and many people have taken time to augur how the US support of arms led to civilian deaths in Gaza.
The war has killed at least 40,000 people directly, while The Lancet’s estimate of the deaths, including indirect ones, is 186,000. The IDF has restricted independent media behavior throughout Gaza, and such general reports of 165 journalists perishing at the scene while trying to give coverage to the situation have only raised apprehensions about the behavior of Israel.
The humanitarian crisis increases, and many compare the genocide in Gaza with such a calamity as the shooting in Uvalde in the United States, aggravated by the constant supply of money and weapons by American citizens. Elements of the Israeli government’s behavior, such as bombing shelters, as well as the displacement of large numbers of innocent people, are seen as progressively less sustainable.
The sustained lack of resolution to the hostage situation has also attracted criticism Internationally. Indeed, Hamas has time and again accepted proposals for ceasefires that include the release of all hostages on the basis of proposals that Israel has put forward. This has resulted in an increasing level of impatience among the families of the hostage, thus blaming Netanyahu, the Israel Prime Minister, for blocking any possible deals in an attempt to achieve political gains.
Lately, there has been an outrage that President Biden and the U. S. administration in general keep supporting Israel despite all these facts. The international community is thus demanding more than just the verbal policies that are being put in place to try and put an end to the violence in the region, but more so seeking the way and means through which the violence may be halted and a lasting end may be found to the ongoing days of conflict. For this reason, there are hopes for activists like Vice President Kamala Harris, who has condemned the sufferings of Palestinians.
According to the polls, a clear and overwhelming majority of the American people, that is about 70% of the Democrats, want no further attacks even without a peace settlement, and the same incoming Americans want no more arms supplied to Israel. The low approval of the Americans on what Israel has been doing in Gaza can offer an opening for Harris to air her grievances and create some space for Biden and his administration to call for justice on the atrocities that the Israeli forces have been perpetrating in Gaza.
As the war in Gaza goes on, people begin to appeal to the authority that will embody justice and humanism. All the actions of the U.S. government in the coming days will shape the future of Gaza’s people and the world at large.
