Blinken says he “respects the right to demonstrate” after pro-Palestinian protests in the US.

The US Secretary of State, Anthony Blinkenobserved this Friday in Beijing that “respects” the right to demonstrate of students who, in recent days, have protested on campuses in the North American country in favor of Palestine.

“I understand students’ frustration very well and I respect their right to demonstrateIt is a hallmark of our democracy“Blinken said at a press conference at the end of his official visit to China.

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For days, some of the great American universities, such as Columbia, New York, Berkeley, California, or Yale, Connecticut, They are the stage for protests and demonstrations with tents in which, above all, they call for a change of direction in the politics of washington in the direction Israel.

“There are people who have strong and passionate feelings about what is happening in Gaza and the Middle East, I understand“, he said Blink.

However, Blink I think that “It is remarkable that there is silence about Hamas”an organization that, he said, “should surrender immediately to end the war.”

“Like I said before… this could end tomorrow, it could end yesterday, it could end months ago, yeah Hamas would have laid down his weapons, if he had stopped hiding behind civilians, if he had freed the hostages and would have given up”he claimed.

The diplomat added that U.Swho has just approve an additional $17 billion in military aid to Israel “works every day to try to minimize the harm caused to people.”

According to data from this Thursday, At least 34,300 people died and more than 77,300 were injured in the Israeli military offensive in Gaza, following the Hamas attacks on October 7 that left around 1,200 dead on Israeli soil, in addition to 253 kidnapped.

About two-thirds of those killed in Palestinian enclave They are women and children, according to Gaza authorities.

Columbia University, the epicenter of the campus protests, reached a last minute deal with activists to limit the scope of their protests.

In this way the right to free expression and respond at the same time complaints about lack of security which involved the presence and activity of dozens of tents in the middle of the main campus, or about the allegedly anti-Semitic behavior of some of the campers towards other students of the Jewish denomination.

Source: Elcomercio

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