Joe Biden said Friday that he “hopes” that a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza could occur by Ramadan, the Muslim holy month that begins on the evening of March 10 or the 11th.
Asked by journalists about the possibility of an agreement on a truce in the Palestinian territory by this date, the American president replied: “I hope so, we are still working a lot on the subject. We’re not there yet”.
“We’re going to get there, but we’re not there yet, and we might not get there,” he said as he left the White House to spend the weekend at the presidential residence in Camp David, near Washington.
The Democrat said at the start of the week that he hoped by the following Monday, March 4, an agreement for a six-week truce in the fighting between Israel and Hamas, but he returned to this agenda.
Israeli shooting and stampede during a humanitarian aid distribution, which caused more than 110 deaths according to Hamas, could have complicated the negotiations, the president acknowledged earlier.
Friday, faced with the desperate situation in Gaza, Joe Biden resolved to involve the United States, “in the coming days” and for the first time, in air drops of humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian territory besieged by the Israeli army.