Under Biden, US will restore aid to Palestine and reopen diplomatic missions

The United States will restore funding for the Palestinian people, and it will reopen diplomatic missions shuttered under the Trump administration, a US official announced Tuesday.

Under new US President Joe Biden, Washington will proceed to utilise the momentum from his predecessor to encourage more countries to normalize ties with Tel Aviv. But the Biden administration recognizes that normalization is “not substitute for Israel-Palestinian peace,” acting US ambassador to the United Nations Richard Mills told the Security Council on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, Biden’s Middle East policy will be “to support a mutually agreed, two-state solution, in which Israel lives in peace and security, alongside a viable Palestinian state,” Mills said.