May 18. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The United States Government has shown this Wednesday its commitment to “promote calm in the coming months” on the occasion of the recent ceasefire agreed between Islamic Jihad and Israel for the Gaza Strip.
The Undersecretary of State, Wendy Sherman, has transferred this message to the director general of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Ronen Levy, in a meeting in which “he has reaffirmed the unconditional support of the United States for Israel’s security.”
Sherman has stressed “the importance of Israel and the Palestinian Authority taking additional steps to stabilize the situation in the West Bank, US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller explained in a statement.
The attacks in the Gaza Strip have intensified since last Tuesday, when Israel began the so-called ‘Operation Shield and Arrow’, directed in principle against the Islamic Jihad group.
The provisional balance of the clashes since then leaves more than 33 Palestinians dead and 147 wounded — according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza — by a deceased Israeli civilian, to which must be added the death of a Gazan who worked in a greenhouse. near the Israeli farming community of Shokeda.
