A woman interrupted US President Joe Biden this Saturday with shouts in defense of the Gaza Strip during an event in Washington.

“Let Gaza live, a ceasefire now!” the protester shouted as Biden attempted to give a speech at the annual dinner of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest US lobby group.. in defense of the LGTBIQ+ collective.

Faced with screams, the president interrupted his speech, but said he could not hear what the woman was saying: “Whatever she is saying, I can't hear her.”

The president's speech was focused on the defense of the rights of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people, although he did speak at some point about the escalation of tension in Gaza, repeating what he had already said on other occasions during the week.

“We are witnessing the worst massacre of the Jewish community since the Holocaust. “We are seeing a humanitarian crisis in Gaza,” Biden declared.

Furthermore, he considered that the majority of people living in Gaza are “innocent Palestinian families who have nothing to do with Hamas.”

Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza

On Saturday, October 7, Hamas attacked several Israeli cities, to which Israel responded by declaring a state of war and bombing the Gaza Strip, representing the worst escalation in decades of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The Israeli military now appears to be preparing for a ground invasion and has asked the 1.1 million Palestinians living in the northern Gaza Strip to move south.

The United States has not questioned this ultimatum from the Israeli Army, but US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, touring the region, has reaffirmed Washington's commitment to minimizing damage to civilians.

The Arab community has strongly condemned this massive displacement of Palestinians within the Gaza Strip, while the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, and the High Representative of the European Union (EU), Josep Borrell, have urged Israel to “seriously reconsider” that evacuation.