Biden welcomes the ceasefire in Gaza, and Starmer calls for its full implementation news
US President Joe Biden welcomed the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, stressing that among the prisoners scheduled to be released from Gaza are American citizens, while British Prime Minister Keir Starmer called for the agreement to be fully implemented and on its specified dates.
Biden said – in brief statements during a visit to North Charleston, North Carolina – “Today the guns fell silent in Gaza,” noting that about 700 aid trucks will enter the Gaza Strip on Sunday.
The US President explained that the ceasefire agreement in Gaza that entered into force today is the same proposal that he put forward last May, and that this is “the result of a fruitful and effective policy that we have implemented for months.”
Biden added – on the last day of his presidential term – that the ceasefire agreement was one of the most difficult negotiations in which he participated, but he defended his decision to support Israel since the beginning of its war on the Gaza Strip, which left more than 155,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, and more than 11. A thousand missing and famine worsening.
Biden, who will hand over the presidency of the United States to Republican Donald Trump tomorrow, Monday, stressed that implementing the Gaza Agreement lies with the next administration.
For his part, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer welcomed on Sunday the release of three Israeli women, one of whom also holds British citizenship, who were detained in the Gaza Strip.
Starmer considered “their recovery of freedom to be good and long-awaited news,” recalling “the suffering of those who have not yet returned to their homes.”
He demanded Starmer To implement the ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Islamic Resistance Movement (agitation) And it is done Implement it “fully and on time,” including its provisions related to the release of the remaining prisoners and increasing humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.
Today, Israeli media reported that the Israeli army received three female prisoners from the International Red Cross after they were released by the Al-Qassam Brigades in the Gaza Strip.
On the other hand, Al Jazeera’s correspondent said that the Red Cross teams in the Israeli Ofer prison have completed the examination of the Palestinian male and female prisoners who will be released amid strict security measures.
