It's Time To Get Gaza Cease-Fire Deal Done - Harris

7/26/2024 5:15:56 AM

(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) WASHINGTON, July 26 (KUNA) -- US Vice President Kamala Harris said she told Israeli Occupation Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu late Thursday that it is time to get a cease-fire deal with Hamas done, describing their one-on-one meeting as "frank and constructive."
Harris, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, said she has "serious concern" about the scale of suffering for Palestinian civilians.
"I will always ensure that Israel is able to defend itself including from Iran and Iran-backed militias such as Hamas and Hezbollah," she stressed in remarks following her meeting with the Israeli leader.
Harris's remarks, delivered from the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, served to lay out how she will distinguish herself from Biden on foreign policy heading into her campaign against former President Trump, the Republican Presidential nominee.
"What has happened in Gaza over the past nine months is devastating. 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."
Still, the vice president condemned Hamas as a brutal terrorist organization that triggered the war with its attack on Israel on October 7.
"It massacred 1,200 innocent people, including 44 Americans. Hamas has committed horrific acts of sexual violence and took 250 hostages. There are American citizens who remain captive in Gaza," Harris said, reading out the names of the eight men and women, alive and dead, who remain in Hamas captivity.
Yesterday, US President Joe Biden and Netanyahu discussed the ceasefire deal in Gaza, as well as the hostages' situation. (end)
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