And it was approved Harris The challenges facing ending the conflict, but she told journalists that she would continue to strive to achieve this goal.
“This provides an opportunity that I believe we should take full advantage of to dedicate ourselves to achieving the goal of ending this war and returning the hostages,” Harris told reporters.
“Dealing with issues in… The Middle Eastespecially in that region, is not easy at all. But this does not mean that we will give up. It will always be difficult. We cannot give up.”
Harris avoided answering a question about whether Arabs were angry And Muslims Americans from the constant Israeli bombing For Gaza And recently For Lebanon It may cost her the election in Michigan, but she said she will continue to speak out about the tragic loss of innocent lives.
Harris continued, saying, “I speak publicly all the time about the fact that there are many tragic stories coming out of Gaza,” also referring to the attack. agitation On October 7th Israel.
“What is very important when we look at this moment,” she stressed, “is to acknowledge the tragedy of what happened in Gaza, in terms of the extraordinary number of innocent Palestinians who were killed, and to take that seriously and speak the truth about it.”
The two presidential candidates, Harris And Donald Trump They are very tied in the most competitive states like Michigan, with only 17 days until the November 5th election.
Harris will need to achieve strong results in the cities of Detroit and Atlanta and their suburbs, both of which are majority non-white and include large Arab and Muslim American populations, in order to repeat the president’s victory. Joe Biden 2020 in Michigan and Georgia.
Trump won the state of Michigan by 11,000 votes in 2016, but in 2020, Biden defeated Trump by 155,000 votes.
On Friday, Harris won the support of 50 prominent Lebanese-American figures, as these figures said that the United States supports Lebanon “tirelessly” under the Biden administration and that it expects additional support if Harris wins in November.
The support came amid ongoing Israeli attacks on Lebanon, which the Ministry of Health says have caused the deaths of at least 2,350 people over the past year, in addition to the displacement of more than 1.2 million people.
Israel says attacks Hezbollah It caused the death of 50 soldiers and civilians.
The death toll in Gaza rose after the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, which led to the killing of about 1,200 people and the taking of 253 hostages, to 42,500 Palestinian deaths.
