On Wednesday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” Biden Campaign Co-Chair Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) noted that Hamas has rejected offers from Israel for a hostage release with a prisoner exchange and ceasefire, but “the ongoing war in Gaza is going to continue to test and strain relations between the United States and Israel, and I am optimistic that the IDF will ultimately listen to the concerns expressed by many of us in Congress as well as by our president.”
Coons said, “I do have concerns about the IDF, were they to go into Rafah at scale and make no accommodation for civilians. I do want to highlight that, in this package the president has just signed, is $9 billion in humanitarian relief. That’s critical for preventing famine in Gaza, as well as for dealing with the emerging famine in Sudan, providing humanitarian assistance in Ukraine and a dozen other countries…
