Vice President Kamala Harris demanded an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and urged Hamas to accept a proposed ceasefire deal.
“Given the immense scale of suffering in Gaza, there must be an immediate ceasefire, at least for the next six weeks,” Harris said during an address in Selma, Alabama, on Sunday.
Harris also demanded that Israel do more to allow the flow of humanitarian aid. “People in Gaza are starving,” she said. “The conditions are inhumane, and our common humanity compels us to act,” she continued. “What we are seeing every day in Gaza is devastating,” Harris said. “We have seen reports of families eating leaves or animal feed. Women giving birth to malnourished babies with little or no medical care. And children dying from malnutrition and dehydration. As I have said many times, too many innocent Palestinians have been killed.”
Harris’s comments came a day before she was set to meet with Israeli Minister Benny Gantz and represent the most forceful call for a ceasefire — and strongest condemnation of Israeli actions — yet to come from a Biden regime official. Harris also defended “the right of the Palestinian people to dignity, freedom, and self-determination,” suggesting she may support a unilateral declaration and creation of a Palestinian state without Israeli involvement or approval.