Palestine defenders welcomed Israel’s roadmap for a Gaza cease-fire — which U.S. President Joe Biden endorsed on Friday — as a necessary first step but warned that the plan does not address the root causes of the war and demanded that the United States stop sending military aid to the key Middle Eastern ally.

“It’s time for this war to end, for the day after to begin,” Biden told reporters in the White House State Dining Room on Friday, adding that “at this point, Hamas is no longer capable of carrying out another October 7.”

In a three-part plan that Biden called “a road map to an enduring cease-fire,” Israel has proposed an initial six-week truce during which Israeli military forces would withdraw from all populated areas of Gaza, while Hamas would release an unspecified number of hostages. Phase........

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