United States Vice President Kamala Harris took a stand on the Israel-Hamas war, which is quite unusual for the world’s most powerful country, when she met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Kamala Harris held the Israeli government accountable for the death of several civilians in the Gaza Strip. Kamala Harris said, ‘I will not be silent as I also pledged support for the right of existence of the Jewish state’.
In her first remarks on the Israel-Hamas war after the country’s Democratic presidential nominee, Harris on Thursday said that ‘it is time for this war to end’ and also argued that the war was not a binary issue.
‘To everyone who has been calling for a ceasefire, and to everyone who yearns for peace, I see you and I hear you’, said Harris, just after Netanyahu departed the White House.
She said, ‘What has happened in Gaza over the past nine months is devastating as the images of dead children and desperate, hungry people fleeing for safety, sometimes displaced for the second, third or fourth time. We cannot look away in the face of these tragedies. We cannot allow ourselves to become numb to the suffering and I will not be silent’.
She said that she will always make sure that Israel is able to defend itself and added, ‘There has been hopeful movement in the talks to secure an agreement on this deal. And as I just told Prime Minister Netanyahu, it is time to get this deal done’.
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