NORTH CHARLESTON, South Carolina (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Sunday welcomed a ceasefire in Gaza and said hundreds of trucks were entering the seaside enclave to help its civilians.
“Today the guns in Gaza have gone silent,” Biden said in brief remarks during a visit to North Charleston, South Carolina. “We anticipate that several hundred trucks will enter the Gaza Strip probably as I speak.”
Most of the civilians in the Gaza Strip were displaced during 15 months of Israeli bombing aimed at eliminating Hamas militants who attacked Israel on October 7, 2023.
Sunday is Biden’s last full day in office. The outgoing president, a former US senator long involved in foreign policy, said the ceasefire agreement was one of the toughest negotiations he has been involved with, but defended his decision to support Israel through months of attacks that have killed nearly 50,000 Palestinians in Gaza.
“The road to this deal was not easy, it was a long road,” Biden said. “But we have reached this point today because of the pressure that Israel has built on Hamas, supported by the United States.”
Biden, who will hand over the US presidency to Republican Donald Trump on Monday, said it will be up to the next administration to implement the Gaza deal.
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2025-01-19 23:41:00
