While appearing in Selma, Alabama, on Sunday to mark the twentieth anniversary of Bloody Sunday, Vice President Kamala Harris pushed further than any other White House officials to urge a break in the fighting in the Israel-Hamas conflict, calling for a “immediate cease-fire” to last a minimum of six weeks in Gaza.
A six-week cease-fire, which is “what is currently on the table,” according to Harris, should be implemented in the ongoing discussions because of “the immense scale of misery in Gaza.”
Saying, “Hamas, says its wants a ceasefire,” she put pressure on Hamas—which allegedly has not accepted existing terms—to accept one. Apparently, a deal is on the table.”
She criticised Israel as well, stating that it should “do more to substantially boost the flow of aid.” Not one justification.”
According to Harris,
the battle respite will allow “a significant amount of aid” to enter as well as the captives—presumably alluding to the hostages that Hamas grabbed when the conflict began on October 7—to escape.
On the 59th year of Bloody Sunday, when Alabama law officers assaulted and physically restrained civil rights protestors as they demonstrated on the bridge commemorating Edmund Pettus, Harris was speaking in Selma.
Bloody Sunday’s incidents contributed to the Voting Rights Act’s passage into law in 1965.
