US and Israel to have talks on Gaza

The State Department said Tuesday that senior US and Israeli officials will meet in early December to discuss American concerns about civilian casualties from military operations in Gaza.

The United States has frequently expressed its worries to Israel, a crucial partner, about the use of American-supplied weapons in strikes that have killed people in the Gaza Strip.

Only once, though, has it used the most powerful tool available to the US: some of the billions of dollars in military aid that Israel has received.

A number of investigations investigating Israeli strikes that killed civilians in Gaza using US-supplied weapons have also been started by the State Department. However, no public decisions have been reached, and US military assistance has not stopped.

A new channel will be launched in December, with the goal of “informing the ongoing work that the State Department has to do to make assessments about the use of US-provided weapons,” according to spokesperson Matthew Miller.

US authorities are examining individual cases to determine whether Israel intentionally targeted and killed people, which would violate US law if it were found that the government had done so.

There have been other cases that we have expressed concerns and enquiries about,” Miller stated.

He went on to say, “We wanted to formalise a mechanism for getting answers to some of these questions, so we set up this new channel.”

Miller will not say where the meeting would be held.

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In mid-October, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin wrote to Israel, repeating the Biden administration’s long-standing call for such a conduit.

Additionally, Israel was given a month by the letter to permit extra aid into Gaza or risk having some US weapons shut off.

Despite Israel’s failure to achieve aid truck targets and a recent UN-backed study that warned of impending hunger in Gaza, the United States eventually chose not to intervene.

Earlier on Tuesday, a few senators with a left-leaning stance demanded that the Biden administration stop selling Israel weapons, claiming that the US was mostly responsible for the “atrocities” being committed in Gaza.

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In Gaza, which is governed by Hamas, the health ministry reports that 43,972 individuals have died in the continuing conflict, the majority of them were civilians. According to the UN, the numbers are accurate.

The conflict started on October 7, 2023, when Hamas militants assaulted Israel, killing 1,206 people, primarily civilians, according to an AFP count of Israeli government statistics.