When the Israel-Hamas war was over, US President Joe Biden said on Saturday that the Gaza Strip and the West Bank should be run by the Palestinian Authority.
In a Washington Post opinion piece, Biden said, “As we work toward a two-state solution and strive for peace, Gaza and the West Bank should be united under a single rule, eventually under a revived Palestinian Authority.”
“There must be no forcible displacement of Palestinians from Gaza, no reoccupation, no siege or blockade, and no reduction in territory,” Biden stated. He wrote the opinion piece to try to answer the question of what the US wants for Gaza after the fighting is over. Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, said that Israel will have to keep “overall military responsibility” in Gaza “for the foreseeable future.”
Biden also said that the US is ready to deny visas to “extremists” who attack people in the West Bank. Since Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, there has been more violence between Israeli settlers and Palestinians living in the West Bank, which Israel occupies.
“I have been emphatic with Israel’s leaders that extremist violence against Palestinians in the West Bank must stop and that those committing the violence must be held accountable,” Biden stated.
Three million Palestinians live in the West Bank with more than 500,000 Jewish settlers. The area has been tense for more than 18 months, and since October 7, violence has grown, causing more worry around the world.
At the same time, thousands of people held rallies in France and Britain to call for an end to the fighting in Gaza, and hundreds more did the same in places across Europe.
Since the first-ever attacks by Hamas on Israel on October 7 that started the latest Gaza war, there have been protests all over Europe.
A banner that said “Stop the massacre in Gaza and the West Bank, immediate ceasefire” was carried by several thousand people as they marched through the middle of Paris in heavy rain.
One of the union leaders who spoke at the rally was Sophie Binet, secretary general of the CGT union. “France must immediately call for a ceasefire so that the guns go silent,” she said. The CGT said that 60,000 people held a protest in the capital and another 40,000 in dozens of towns across the country. Public Sector
