US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller condemned settler attacks on aid trucks and asked the Israeli government to prevent them in the future.

Miller, who was responding to a question from Al-Quds.com correspondent, said in his press conference in the press conference room at the State Department regarding whether the State Department was aware of settler attacks on shipments coming from Jordan: “Yes, we have followed this issue closely because "It happened while we were in Israel."

He added, "I will tell you what Secretary (Anthony Blinken) said about this issue to Prime Minister (Benjamin Netanyahu), which is that these attacks on aid shipments are unacceptable and that Israel must take steps to prevent them and must take steps to hold people accountable for them."

Miller said: “I will tell you that we were pleased when we learned that yesterday (Wednesday) Israel arrested three of the people involved in the attacks on this convoy. This is the appropriate step; this is the step they must take whenever there are attacks on aid convoys, and they must moreover... That prevents these attacks from happening in the first place, and that's what we hope they do because these are aid shipments that are being delivered to innocent civilians who have nothing to do with October 7th, and they should continue unimpeded."

A group of Israeli settlers attacked and damaged an aid convoy that was heading to Gaza from Jordan on April 30.

Videos show settlers climbing onto aid trucks and throwing their food contents on the ground while Gaza still faces a looming famine.

On Tuesday, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced the new shipment of aid to Gaza, following his meeting with Jordanian officials.

In a statement, the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs criticized the settlers, describing them as "extremists."

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Affairs said in a statement, “Today, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Affairs condemned in the strongest terms the attack by extremist Israeli settlers on two Jordanian aid convoys carrying food supplies, flour, and other humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.”

The government authority added that one of the two trucks headed to the Kerem Salem crossing, and the other was the first truck expected to enter the Gaza Strip through the Erez crossing.

The Ministry considered the Israeli government's failure to protect the two aid convoys and allowing them to be targeted, a blatant violation of its legal obligations as an occupying force and its obligations to allow aid to enter Gaza. 

Despite the attack, according to the official spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Sufyan Al-Qudah, the two trucks continued to deliver the necessary aid “in light of the humanitarian catastrophe that [Gaza] is facing.”