The Biden administration does not believe that Israel’s current strategy against Hamas will lead to “total victory” over the Islamist movement in power in the Gaza Strip, US Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell said as quoted by US media.
“Israeli leaders sometimes talk about the idea of some sort of landslide victory on the battlefield, of a total victory, but I don’t think we believe that that is likely or possible,” Campbell said yesterday, speaking at the NATO Youth Summit in Miami.
Many countries want to see a “political solution in which Palestinian rights are better respected,” the US deputy secretary of state added. “I don’t think it’s ever been as difficult as it is right now, but I still think the commitment is there,” he said.
Even so, the US government has reiterated that “We do not believe that what is happening in Gaza is genocide,” as White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan put it.
CNN, everything is ready for an Israeli offensive in Rafah
The Biden administration estimates that Israel has amassed enough troops on the edge of Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, to proceed with a large-scale incursion in the coming days: CNN reports this, citing two senior US leaders, who however are not certain whether Tel Aviv has made a definitive decision for such a move, in open defiance of the American president.
One of the leaders also warned that Israel had not come anywhere close to making adequate humanitarian preparations before potentially evacuating more than a million residents of the Palestinian enclave who currently reside in Rafah.
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