From ‘Israel’s right to defend' against Hamas to sinking ships in Red Sea: US amps up presence in West Asian conflict
Hamas saw the world change stance from ‘right of one nation to defend itself’ to ‘need for aids to enter the attacked nation’, but none holding the power to has sought an ‘immediate ceasefire’. The war inflated on 7 October, when Hamas fighters from Gaza launched a multi-pronged attack on Israel, killing at least 1,200 people.
Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu retaliated by launching an airstrike campaign, most of which were ‘dumb bombs’. Netanyahu vowed to ‘eliminate’ Hamas fighters, but have killed over 20,000 people in the densely populated Gaza strip.
While Netanyahu showed no signs of stopping, its biggest ally, United States' Joe Biden-led government said that ‘Israel had the right to defend itself’, all the while refusing to condemn the war, despite Israel's intensified ground and aerial attack on Gaza. While Palestinians in Gaza were displaced repeatedly on instructions of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), US continued supporting Israel, so much to to veto a UN resolution demanding ceasefire.
US deputy ambassador Robert Wood called the resolution “imbalanced". “Hamas has no desire to see a durable peace, to see a two-state solution," Wood said before the vote.
“For that reason, while the United States strongly supports a durable peace, in which both Israelis and Palestinians can live in peace and security, we do not support calls for an immediate cease-fire." While US President Joe Biden maintained his customary deterrent to Israel's Netanyahu ad asked the latter to be careful about Palestinian civilians in Gaza, last week the Biden administration surpassed the US Congress, and approve the transfer of nearly $150 million in military equipment to Israel amid the country’s war against Hamas. This comes even as US
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