Vice President JD Vance said on Tuesday night that the Trump administration had “solved” the problem in the Gaza Strip and touted the so-called “peace agreement” pushed by President Trump, claims that come as the Israeli military continues its constant ceasefire violations, which have killed more than 750 Palestinians.
Vance made the comments while speaking at a Turning Point USA event in Georgia when confronted by hecklers, including one who said “Jesus Christ doesn’t support genocide,” which was yelled out as the vice president was discussing the administration’s disagreements with Pope Leo XIV.
“Now, to respond to this guy here, I believe he said the administration supports a genocide in Gaza. And here’s my response to that,” Vance said. “When we came in, the humanitarian situation in Gaza was an absolute catastrophe. You know who’s the person who got a peace agreement in Gaza? Donald J. Trump. So if you want to complain about what happened in Gaza, why don’t you complain about Joe Biden in the last administration? We’re the administration that solved that problem.”
On the same day as the TPUSA event, the Israeli military launched heavy attacks across Gaza, killing at least 11 Palestinians, including a three-year-old boy and a 14-year-old boy.
During his response, another voice could be heard yelling, “You’re killing children,” and Vance went on to claim that more humanitarian aid was entering Gaza than in recent years, though Israel never lived up to its commitment under the ceasefire deal to allow 600 aid trucks to enter per day, and it imposed even more restrictions at the start of the US-Israeli war against Iran, causing rising prices and food shortages.
“Right now, you see more humanitarian aid coming into Gaza than at any time in the past 5 years because we have taken that situation seriously,” Vance said, comments that drew a response from Hamas.
In a statement, Hamas said that Vance’s remarks were “misleading and far from reality” and an “attempt to cover up the sharp deterioration of the humanitarian situation in the Strip.”
Amid the continued Israeli attacks in Gaza, there’s been no sign of progress in implementing Trump’s Gaza plan. The US and Israel continue to demand Hamas’s disarmament, while Hamas is maintaining that it won’t discuss the issue until the first phase of the ceasefire deal is implemented.
