GAZA/JERUSALEM - Israel has kept up its strikes on Hamas targets in Gaza as it prepares for a ground invasion of the enclave, as world powers at the United Nations failed to secure plans to deliver critical humanitarian aid.
US President Joe Biden, in remarks looking beyond the war that broke out with an Oct 7 attack on Israel by Palestinian Hamas militants, said the future should include a two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians.
“Israelis and Palestinians equally deserve to live side by side in safety, dignity and in peace,” Mr Biden said at a joint press conference in Washington with visiting Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
Mr Biden said he believes one reason Hamas militants attacked southern Israel, killing 1,400 people and taking more than 200 hostages, is to prevent normalising relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia.
Israeli retaliatory strikes have killed over 6,500 people in Gaza, the health ministry in the Hamas-run strip said on Wednesday.
Reuters has been unable to independently verify the casualty figures of either side.
Over 7,600 rockets have been fired towards Israel since Oct 7 out of Gaza, according to Israeli government data, while there have been repeated clashes along the northern border.
Israel’s Magen David Adom ambulance service said two people were being treated for shrapnel and glass wounds after a rocket fired from Gaza on Wednesday night struck the central Israeli city of Rishon Letzion, south of Tel Aviv.
Aid proposals fail in UN Security Council votes
At the United Nations, Russia and China vetoed a US-drafted Security Council resolution calling for pauses in hostilities to allow much needed food, water and medicine to be delivered to Palestinian civilians.
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