US President Joe Biden acknowledged Friday that it would be “tough” to secure a ceasefire between the Palestinian Resistance in the Gaza Strip and “Israel” by the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
“It’s looking tough,” Biden told reporters when asked if a deal to halt the five-month-old war could be achieved by Ramadan, which is due to start as early as Sunday depending on the sighting of the moon.
The US President added that “I sure am” worried about the possibility of violence in occupied al-Quds as Ramadan approaches, adding to a similar warning earlier this week of a “very, very dangerous” situation if no ceasefire is achieved by the holy month.
During his State of the Union address on Friday, Biden claimed that his administration has been “working nonstop to establish an immediate ceasefire that would last for six weeks.”
According to him, the six-week truce would ensure the release of the captives held in Gaza, “ease the intolerable humanitarian crisis, and build toward something more enduring.”
Earlier on Friday, Abu Obeida, the spokesperson for al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, pushed for continued confrontations and expanded mobilization in the month of Ramadan, in the West Bank, occupied ’48 territories, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq, and other Islamic and Arab nations to end the genocide against the Palestinian people.
He called “upon all the sons of our people in the West Bank, al-Quds, and the occupied Palestinian territories in 1948 to mobilize and march toward al-Aqsa Mosque, stand firm there, and not allow the occupation to impose its [policies in the holy site].”
Fearing a ticking bomb in the occupied West Bank and yielding to calls from the US administration, Israeli occupation authorities announced they will allow as many worshippers to access the al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied al-Quds during the first week of the holy month of Ramadan as in previous years.
Abu Obeida also underlined that there would be no compromise on the movement’s demand that the Israeli occupation forces fully withdraw from the Gaza Strip.
source: AlMayadeen
