WASHINGTON: An overwhelming majority of Democrats in the Senate of the United States have backed a statement reiterating Washington’s support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
49 of the 51 members of the Senate Democratic caucus supported an amendment backing a negotiated solution to the conflict that results in Israeli and Palestinian states.
The only two Democratic senators who did not sign onto the amendment were Joe Manchin and John Fetterman.
Senator Brian Schatz introduced the step as an amendment to an upcoming bill that would provide aid to Ukraine, Taiwan and Israel.
Schatz told a news conference “What will determine the future of Palestine and Israel is whether or not there’s hope. And the two-state solution has to be that hope.” Reuters reported that many of Biden’s fellow Democrats in the US Congress have also been pushing his administration to do more amid the mounting death toll from Israel’s war on Gaza.
Almost All Senate Democrats Express Support for Two-State Solution
Israel launched its military campaign in the Gaza Strip in response to the Oct. 7 Hamas surprise attack on Israel. Since then, the Israeli army has waged a ferocious air and ground offensive against Gaza, killing over 25,000 Palestinians, the Gaza health ministry said.
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Meanwhile, seven injured Palestinian children from the war-torn Gaza Strip have arrived in France for medical treatment, the French foreign ministry said on Wednesday.
It is the 2nd such evacuation to the European nation after two other Palestinian children arrived on December 28. It may be recalled that the health care system has nearly entirely collapsed in the Gaza Strip after more than three months of devastating Israeli bombing and fighting in the besieged Palestinian territory.
French Foreign Minister says France remains very worried by the humanitarian situation in the Strip, where a lack of food, clean drinking water and medicine has for several weeks exposed population to a very serious health and food crisis.
