Biden absolves Israel from Gaza Hospital Attack, says “It was done by the other team, not you”
Biden said he was "proud" to visit Israel.
Biden absolves Israel from Gaza Hospital Attack, as he says, “It was done by the other team, not you.”
US President Joe Biden held an on-camera meeting with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after landing in Tel Aviv on Wednesday hours after Israel launched a deadly airstrike on a hospital in Gaza City.
US President Joe Biden said he was “deeply saddened and outraged” by the Gaza hospital explosion, and told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “Based on what I’ve seen, it appears as though it was done by the other team, not you.”
US President Joe Biden says he was "deeply saddened and outraged" by the Gaza hospital explosion, and tells Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: "Based on what I've seen, it appears as though it was done by the other team, not you."https://t.co/PAiZ4D1jU3
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“But there´s a lot of people out there not sure so we have to overcome a lot of things,” Biden added.
“We have to bear in mind that Hamas does not represent all the Palestinian people and has brought them only suffering,” US President Biden said.
Biden said he was encouraging Netanyahu to ensure “life-saving capacity to help the Palestinians who are innocent and caught in the middle of this”.
Biden said he was “proud” to visit Israel.
“I want to say to the people of Israel — their courage, their commitment, and their bravery is stunning,” Biden added.
Earlier in the day, US President Joe Biden in his official statement on the Gaza Hospital bombing, that he was “outraged and deeply saddened by the explosion at the Al Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza, and the terrible loss of life that resulted”.
POTUS mentioned that he spoke with King Abdullah II of Jordan and Israeli PM Netanyahu and directed his “ national security team to continue gathering information about what exactly happened“.
“The United States stands unequivocally for the protection of civilian life during conflict and we mourn the patients, medical staff, and other innocents killed or wounded in this tragedy,” he added.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — who is facing domestic criticism after the deadliest attack in Israel´s history — hailed Biden — who has faced accusations from the rival Republican Party that he is insufficiently pro-Israel — for paying “the first visit of an American president in Israel in a time of war”.
“There´s only one thing better than having a true friend like you standing with Israel and that is having you standing in Israel,” Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu, opening the talks with Biden, called for global unity against Hamas.
“Just as the civilized world united to defeat the Nazis and united to defeat ISIS [Daesh], the civilized world must unite and defeat Hamas,” Netanyahu said.
“I can assure you, Mr President, Israel is united to defeat Hamas and we will defeat Hamas and remove this terrible threat.”
