Israeli Protection Minister Yoav Gallant spoke with Protection Secretary Lloyd Austin on the Pentagon Tuesday. The assembly — certainly one of a collection of conferences with prime U.S. officers this week — comes amid a diplomatic rift between the U.S. and Israel, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu abruptly canceling a go to by one other high-level delegation to the USA after the U.S. abstained from voting on a cease-fire decision earlier than the U.N. Safety Council, permitting it to go.
On the prime of their assembly, Austin advised Gallant that the U.S. was working to make “Israel and the area safer.” Austin referred to as the safety of Palestinian civilians a “ethical necessity and a strategic crucial,” including that “the variety of civilian casualties is much too excessive and the quantity of humanitarian help is much too low.”
