The top U.S. diplomat spoke of “complicated” negotiations with Egypt and Israel to allow aid into Gaza while Israeli airstrikes intensify.
A Palestinian man injured in an Israeli airstrike gestures as people inspect the damage in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on Wednesday. Secretary of State Antony Blinken headed to Israel on Wednesday as a show of support in the wake of the brazen Hamas attack, even as the Biden administration tried to temper a humanitarian collapse unleashed by Israel’s airstrikes and shutdown of Gaza.
Meanwhile, electricity, food and water are in desperately short supply for the 2.3 million people living inside the 140-square-mile Gaza enclave, U.N. Secretary General António Guterres said Wednesday. “There is no time to lose. Every moment counts.” The Biden administration has been stalwart in rhetorical and material support for Israel, repeating that the country has the right to defend itself following the horrific weekend attack that left more than 1,200 dead and what Israel has said are“Nobody wants to see any more innocent life lost,” White House spokesman John Kirby told reporters Wednesday. It was Hamas, he said, that was “directly endangering Palestinian lives” by using them as human shields in Gaza.
“Where they are and in what condition ... sadly, we don’t know,” Kirby said of the hostages. The situation is “very very difficult. We don’t know if they’re all in one group, several groups, we don’t know if they’re being moved, or with what frequency.”
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