WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Israel must take urgent steps to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza to avoid legal action involving U.S. military aid, Axios reported on Tuesday.
“We are writing now to underscore the U.S. government’s deep concern over the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza, and seek urgent and sustained actions by your government this month to reverse this trajectory,” they wrote in an Oct. 13 letter to their Israeli counterparts, cited by an Axios reporter on X.
The Pentagon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
(Reporting Phil Stewart and Susan Heavey; Editing by Doina Chiacu)
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