US position on Gaza finally hardening as split with Netanyahu grows

Kamala Harris has a frank message for Benny Gantz, a member of Israel’s war cabinet – that conditions in Gaza are a humanitarian catastrophe, that more aid needs to make it into the besieged territory and that there needs to be an immediate ceasefire.

The Vice President told reporters as much as she left a political event in Washington on Monday, not long before she was scheduled to meet with Gantz, an opposition rival of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the White House.

Asked what she planned to talk about, she replied that they would discuss getting the hostage deal done, getting aid in and “getting that six-week cease-fire”.