The Biden administration was considering accepting some Palestinians from the Gaza Strip into the United States as refugees, CBS News reported.
Senior officials from several US federal agencies discussed options for resettling Palestinians from Gaza whose immediate family members were US citizens or permanent residents, the report stated, citing internal federal government documents.
The report said coordination with Egypt would likely be needed to get additional Palestinians out of Gaza and process them as refugees if they have US relatives.
More than 34,500 Palestinians had been killed since Israel launched a retaliatory offensive on Gaza following a cross-border Hamas attack on October 7 last year, Gaza’s health ministry reported.
World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressed concern on Tuesday about a possible Israeli ground offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah.
A full-scale invasion on Rafah would be a humanitarian catastrophe. We appeal to Israel not to proceed. We urge all parties to work for a ceasefire and lasting peace.
His statement came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised an offensive on Rafah on Tuesday despite reports of a possible ceasefire agreement with Hamas. Netanyahu declared that the Israeli army would enter Rafah to destroy Hamas battalions there “with or without a deal.”
French peace activists condemned the “spiral of hatred and massacres in the Middle East,” calling for an end to the war in Gaza, Deputy of the French National Assembly Nicolas Dupont-Aignan, said on X.
This morning, in two very different newspapers, Le Figaro and Libération, two editorial writers, Renaud Girard and Serge Jules, denounced in the same words the spiral of hatred and mass murder in the Middle East. They point out the obvious: the urgent need for a ceasefire in Gaza and the political prospect of a two-state solution. A must read.
