Biden Admin Urges Israel to Improve Gaza’s Humanitarian Situation

President Joe Biden’s administration has sent a new warning message for Israel to improve humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip, as Israeli forces continue to operate there.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivered the warning in an Oct. 13 letter to Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer.

The communication to the Israeli ministers was meant to be kept private, but its contents were leaked to the press.

“This was a letter we consider to be a private diplomatic communication that we did not intend to make public from our side, but now that it is public, I’m happy to confirm it and speak to it to some extent,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said at an Oct. 15 press briefing.

Miller said the letter communicated a concern that Israel has not sustained support for humanitarian assistance entering the Gaza Strip and that such aid has fallen to about 50 percent of its wartime peak.

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