Alwaght- The US Secretary of State said Washington has sent a draft resolution to the UN calling for an immediate truce to the Israeli aggression on Gaza.
“We’re pressing for an immediate ceasefire tied to the release of hostages. That would bring immediate relief to so many people who are suffering in Gaza – the children, the women, the men,” Blinken told Saudi-run Al-Hadath news network.
“We actually have a resolution that we put forward right now that’s before the United Nations Security Council that does call for an immediate ceasefire tied to the release of hostages, and we hope very much that countries will support that,” Blinken said. “I think that would send a strong message, a strong signal.”
The Secretary of State declined to elaborate on the terms of the ceasefire proposal, but very likely it would tie cessation of the 6-month-long genocidal war to release of Israeli prisoners held by Hamas.
The top US diplomat is in Saudi Arabia on his sixth visit to the region since October 7.
The US has so far rejected calls for peace and gave the Israeli regime a leeway to continue its killing spree in Gaza.
Washington has so far vetoed three resolutions calling for immediate ceasefire, the last one drafted by Algeria on February 20.
The White House has been clear in its support for the Israeli war on Gaza, justifying the backing by arguing that Israeli regime should be allowed to destroy Hamad, a resistance group ruling Gaza since 2007 out of Israeli dominance, unlike Palestinian Authority that is submissive to Tel Aviv in the West Bank.
When asked in November by CBS News if he believed Hamas “must be eliminated entirely,” President Joe Biden said in November, “Yes, I do.”
“We still don’t believe that a general ceasefire is appropriate at this time,” National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby told reporters in December. “When we talk about a general ceasefire, what that means is a complete cessation of fighting across all of Gaza, which we believe at this point in time benefits Hamas.”
The US has been funding the war and providing Israeli military with weapons they need, including destructive bombs.
On Monday, the Israel Hayom newspaper revealed that since October 7, the US shipped 35,000 tons of weapons to the Israeli regime by 300 planes and about 50 ships.
Hamas has so far shown a dramatic resistance to the Israeli regime. Its allies across the region have also been attacking the Israeli regime and its backer US bases in the region. Yemen, for example, imposes an effective ban on the Israeli ships and ports and recently on the US and British ships in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.
However, in recent months, the Biden administration has come under pressure to press Netanyahu for end of war.
The uptick in criticism from progressives and Democrats overall for his response to the war is a real danger to the president, whose pro-Israel stance could result in him losing votes in 2024 in critical states like Michigan, where grassroots organizations are calling on voters to “Abandon Biden.”
Also, rights advocates in the US are urging Biden to end his administration’s “complicity” in Israeli massacre.
