Gaza, Israel: US rejects international demands for a cease-fire

 Gaza, Israel: US rejects international demands for a cease-fire

Global appeals for a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, the Palestinian organization, have been met with resistance from the US, which claims that this is not the "right answer right now".

John Kirby, a spokesman for national security, made the remarks on Monday, proposing "pauses" in favor of allowing supplies to enter Gaza.

There is now a very limited supply of gasoline, food, water, and medications for Gaza's 2.2 million inhabitants.

However, Israel has said that a truce won't happen until Hamas is destroyed.

Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, said that "calls for a ceasefire are stipulates Israel to surrender to Hamas, to capitulate to terrorism... this will not happen."

At a news conference, Mr. Kirby expressed confidence that additional relief trucks will be able to pass through Egypt and reach Gaza.

He claimed that the US has discussed with the Israeli government raising the daily total of trucks that pass the border to roughly 100.

According to Mr. Kirby, some forty-five trucks crossed into Gaza on Sunday via Egypt's Rafah Crossing. Still, he acknowledged that more will be required.

"We know that even that, that was a dramatic improvement over wherever we are right now, is still not going to be enough," he said during the news conference.

Before the conflict began, the BBC was informed by Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner-general of UNRWA, that around 500 trucks per day were entering Gaza.

Since the Hamas strikes on October 7, which claimed 1,400 lives in Israel and resulted in the capture of 229 individuals by Hamas, Israel has been bombarding Gaza.

The health ministry headed by Hamas claims that since Israel started its retaliatory assault of Gaza, over 8,300 Palestinians have died there.

On Monday, Natalie Raanan, an Israeli prisoner taken hostage by Hamas, was confirmed to have returned to her home in Chicago by Yinam Cohen, Israel's general consul to the Midwest.

Israel vehemently rejected the UN General Assembly's proposal last week for an urgent humanitarian ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.

According to Mr. Lazzarini, the relief delivery system would "fail unless there is political will for creating the flow of supplies worthwhile, matching the unprecedented emergency needs" on Monday.

After three weeks of heavy shelling, Israel started what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu referred to as the "second stage" of a war on Monday with the goal of destroying Hamas. Ground troops expanded their operations inside Gaza.