US Vice President Vows to Speak Out Against Gaza Suffering: “I Will Not Be Silent”

Washington, D.C., The Gulf Observer: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris voiced her concerns regarding the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza during a closed-door meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Thursday.

“I made clear my serious concern about the dire humanitarian situation there, with over 2 million people facing high levels of food insecurity and half a million people facing catastrophic levels of acute food insecurity,” Harris stated to reporters following the meeting.

The discussion took place a day after Netanyahu addressed a joint session of the U.S. Congress, where he asserted that the war in Gaza has “one of the lowest ratios of combatants to non-combatant casualties in the history of urban warfare.”

Harris described the events in Gaza over the past nine months as “devastating.”

“The images of dead children and desperate, hungry people fleeing for safety, sometimes displaced for the second, third, or fourth time. We cannot look away in the face of these tragedies. We cannot allow ourselves to become numb to the suffering. And I will not be silent,” she added.

The meeting underscored the Biden administration’s concern over the humanitarian impact of the conflict in Gaza, highlighting the urgent need for relief and resolution amidst the ongoing crisis.