After Gaza ceasefire: ?What?s Biden?s plan? There?s zero plan?

Twelve people, including two children, were killed in Israel.“The Biden administration’s policies have been horrific and despicable, and make the United States 100 percent complicit in Israel’s massacres and atrocities against Palestinians,” said Josh Ruebner, an adjunct lecturer at the Georgetown University.Ruebner told Al Jazeera that while it was positive the Biden administration eventually backed a ceasefire, “it wasn’t that they suddenly developed some type of moral backbone” but rather that it responded to political pressure on the US streets and from progressive Democrats.“All of this political pressure is what has been effective in moving the Biden administration toward a better position, but that type of pressure needs to be kept up now so that there is accountability after the ceasefire,” he said, urging a US arms embargo on Israel and additional charges at the International Criminal Court (ICC).Palestinian rights groups have urged an independent investigation into Israeli bombings in Gaza that flattened residential homes as well as targeted media organisations and journalists.In the US, even before the Israeli offensive on Gaza began, lawmakers had begun to question annual US military assistance to Israel. Independent Senator Bernie Sanders also introduced a similar resolution in that chamber on Thursday.“It’s unconscionable that even as Israel uses US weapons to target children, journalists, medical workers and others, the US sends them more weapons to carry out such violence,” Khury Petersen-Smith, the Michael Ratner Middle East fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies think-tank, told Al Jazeera, about the sale.A Palestinian man inspects the damage of a six-storey building that was destroyed by an early morning Israeli air attack on Gaza City on May 18 [File: Khalil Hamra/AP Photo]Ruebner said “pressure emanating from Congress will continue to push the Biden administration in the way that it needs to go – despite where it wants to go” on Israel-Palestine policy.