Biden Says Netanyahu Doesn't Do Much Aid Facilitation To Gaza

United States President Joe Biden. (Wikimedia Commons/The White House)

JAKARTA - United States President Joe Biden, said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had not done enough to ensure humanitarian aid entering the trapped Gaza Strip. Biden mentioned the promises made by the Israeli leader to him, including to increase the amount of aid that went into the Gaz and "reduced significantly" civilian casualties in Gaza and other regions that were raided by the Israeli military action.Biden did not explicitly mention the region in question, however Israel has launched attacks in Lebanon and Syria. "I have been outspoken and straightforward to the prime minister, to his war cabinet, as well as his cabinet," Biden said during a joint press conference of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the White House quoted by ANTARA, Thursday 11 April. The president referred to an increase in the number of trucks carrying humanitarian aid that could enter Gaza recently, but he said, "That's not enough." There is one more need to be done in the northern region. So we will see what he (Netanyahu, ed) did in fulfilling his commitment," he said, adding.Biden most likely referred to his statement at the Erez crossing along the northern border of Gaza with Israel. White House, the US president's office, said the Israeli government had committed to open an EMez border for aid delivery.Biden warned that future US support for the Israeli war in Gaza would depend on whether the Israeli government carried out massive reforms related to its waged war. The warning comes after seven international humanitarian workers were killed in Israeli airstrikes in central Gaza after they finished sending supplies to aid centers. More than 33,500 Palestinians have died in Gaza since the war began in October 2023 after the cross-border attack by Hamas, which killed less than 1,200 people in Israel. In addition to the massive military attacks, Israel also implemented a blockade that crippled the pockets that were on the edge of the sea causing its population, especially its residents in northern Gaza, on the verge of starvation. The war has resulted in 85 percent of Gaza's population being forced to flee amid food shortages, clean water and medicine, while most of the infrastructure in the region has been damaged or destroyed.

Israel at the International Court (ICJ) is accused of committing genocide in the International Court (ICJ). ICJ itself has urged Israel to add to efforts to prevent hunger in Gaza.