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Biden administration pushes for a humanitarian 'pause' in Israel’s military campaign in Gaza
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The Biden administration is pushing for more aid to get into Gaza and signaling Israel to “pause” its military offensive against Hamas militants, amid concerns that days of heavy bombardment and a siege of the Palestinian enclave are creating a growing humanitarian disaster and raising the risk of a wider conflict.
But more than two weeks into Israel’s relentless air campaign in the densely populated Gaza Strip, with outrage mounting among Arab governments, the administration’s public statements on the humanitarian situation have taken on an increasingly urgent tone.
At his news conference at the White House, Biden also used tough words to describe incidents in the West Bank in which Israeli settlers staged retaliatory attacks on Palestinians, saying the assaults had “to stop now.”
The potential for an expanding war has been a concern for the White House since the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, but until Wednesday administration officials have focused on America’s adversaries — warning Iran, for instance, not to mobilize its proxies in the region.
While the Biden administration has expressed concern over “extremist settler attacks” against Palestinian civilians in the past, the president’s pointed language on Wednesday marks the first time he’s specifically cautioned about the potential for such violence to expand the Israel-Hamas war that began two-and-a-half weeks ago.
“These deliveries are a drop in the bucket compared to the vast scale of needs,” Lynn Hastings, U.N. deputy special coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, told the Security Council on Tuesday.
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