The President of the United States, Joe Biden, said in a speech to the nation that he will continue to work “to end the war in Gaza” in the six months he has left in the White House.
“I will continue to work to end the war in Gaza, bring home all the hostages and bring peace and security to the Middle East and end this war,” he said on Wednesday, in a speech in which he spoke publicly for the first time about the decision to put an end to the presidential re-election campaign.
Biden stated in the historic 11-minute speech that he is the first American President of this century who can say that the United States is not at war anywhere in the world. The commitment to keeping the country strong will continue, he noted.
The leader also pledged to continue to “bring together a coalition of nations to prevent” Russian President Vladimir Putin “from taking over Ukraine” and to work “day and night” to bring “the North Americans who are unjustly detained around the world.”
Biden will meet today with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is visiting the United States, on an official trip that triggered pro-Palestinian protests in Washington on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Although the US is Israel’s main partner and arms supplier, bilateral relations are not at their highest due to its management of the war against the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Biden reproached Netanyahu for the harshness of the military offensive in the Strip, where almost 39,000 people have died, 90,000 have been injured and 1.9 million have been displaced since the start of the war on October 7th.
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