US Vice President Kamala Harris urged Washington and President Joe Biden to be more sympathetic to Palestinian civilians and show more concern for the humanitarian damage in the Gaza Strip, where Israel is locked in a bloody battle with the Islamic resistance movement Hamas, according to a report published by the American newspaper Politico.

Harris stressed, according to the report published on Thursday, that her country “should be tougher with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and be more forceful in seeking to achieve long-term peace through the two-state solution.”

The newspaper, which was quoting a senior official in the US administration and sources close to Harris, said that the latter argued during internal talks about the war on Gaza that the time had come “to begin making plans for the next day in order to deal with the wreckage of the war as soon as the fighting ends.”

The newspaper confirmed that Harris's statements "reveal the extent to which senior Democratic officials are struggling to walk a cautious line regarding the war between Israel and Hamas, especially since the conflict has shaken the Democratic political alliance internally and externally."

The newspaper added, "Harris urged Biden, in the wake of the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, to condemn Islamophobia at the same time as he spoke against anti-Semitism. In confirmation of this, the Washington Post reported last month that Harris persuaded Biden to add a line He condemned Islamophobia in his speech on October 10, about the outbreak of war.

The newspaper continued: “Since then, Biden, Harris, and other administration officials have become increasingly willing to criticize Israel’s approach to fighting Hamas, and this became clear this week when the president issued a stark warning to the Israeli government about the potential political consequences of its fierce military attack. He also condemned what he called” "Indiscriminate bombing," and called on Netanyahu's hard-line government to change its methods.

She noted that "Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken rebuked Israel for the toll its military operation had on ordinary Palestinians, with Austin warning that Israel risked a 'strategic defeat' if it insisted on these heavy civilian losses."

In this regard, Harris recently spoke about Israeli military tactics in tough terms after meeting in Dubai with leaders from Egypt, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates, where she reiterated that Israel “has the right to defend itself, but what matters is how it carries out this mission. Too many have been killed.” "Of innocent Palestinians. Frankly, the scale of civilian suffering, and the images and videos coming from Gaza, are devastating. It is truly heartbreaking," she said.

In response to her statements, Politico newspaper quoted Wael Al-Zayat, CEO of the Islamic advocacy group Emgage, as saying that Harris “uses stronger language against Israelis who should refrain from harming civilians, and she is a woman of color who is in tune with various issues of racial and social justice,” while one considered that Pro-Israel Democrats said the administration's "record on shipping weapons to Israel and seeking more aid from Congress was more important than any rhetoric from senior officials."

Kamala Harris had confirmed in previous statements that her country would not, under any circumstances, allow the “forced deportation” of Palestinians from Gaza or the West Bank, just as she called on Israel more than once to do more to protect Palestinian civilians.

She stressed the need for regional consensus and support for post-war Gaza, calling on the international community to "allocate significant resources to support short- and long-term recovery in Gaza."