Biden warns Israel that reoccupying the Gaza Strip would be a “big mistake”

The President of the United States, Joe Bidenwarned Israel to reoccupy the Gaza strip It would be a “big mistake”, although he defended the right of the Jewish State to enter the Palestinian enclave to eliminate fighters from the Islamic group. Hamas.

The statements of Bidenmade in an interview broadcast this Sunday by the broadcaster CBSrepresent its first public attempt to try to contain the retaliation that Israel has taken against the Gaza Strip since the Hamas attack on October 7.

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Until now, Biden reaffirmed his unwavering support for Israel and avoided criticizing the Jewish State due to the imposed lockdown Linkwhich has prevented the entry of water, food and medicine since the Hamas attack, despite UN warnings about the possibility of a humanitarian crisis.

Although, In the interview, the president expressed reluctance about a large-scale occupation of the Gaza Strip.

“I think that would be a big mistake,” Biden told CBS. in the interview recorded on Thursday and broadcast on Sunday night.

“What happened in LinkIn my opinion, this is it Hamas and extremist elements within Hamas do not represent the entire Palestinian people. And I think it would be a mistake for Israel to occupy Link again,” he said.

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However, Biden considered it necessary to “eliminate extremists”. who are hidden among the civilian population in Gaza Strip.

The Gaza Strip was administered by Egypt between the armistice of the 1949 Arab-Israeli war and the 1967 Six-Day War, when Israel seized Sinai, Gaza, the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Syrian Golan Heights.

Israel withdrew from Gaza in 2005. The following year, Hamas, considered a terrorist group by several countries (including Israel, the US and the European Union), ran in the 2006 elections and won the majority of seats in the Palestinian Legislative Council.

Faced with the international threat of sanctions, the Islamic movement accepted a unity government with the president of the Palestinian National Authority (ANP), Mahmoud Abbas.

However, a violent fight in the streets of Range among supporters of Hamas and those of the Palestinian president ended with the latter’s expulsion from the enclave.

Hamas began de facto government in 2007 and since then, the territory has been isolated and blockaded by land, sea and air by Egypt and Israel. Furthermore, it depends on the Jewish State for supplies.

The Israeli Army forcibly entered the Gaza Strip in 2009 and 2014, but in both cases chose not to remain in that territory.

Source: Elcomercio

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