The president of the United States, Joe Biden, supported Israel's accusations on Wednesday that the attack on a hospital in Gaza, where, according to Palestinian sources, at least 500 people died, was the work of “the other party.”
“Based on what I've seen it looks like it was the other side, but there are a lot of people out there who aren't sure,” Biden said at the start of his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in front of television cameras. .
The President of the United States, Joe Biden, arrived in Israel this Wednesday to meet with the country's authorities, having decided to continue with this trip after the massacre in a hospital in Gaza, for which Israel denies responsibility.
The presidential plane Air Force One landed around 10:55 a.m. (7:55 a.m. local time) in Tel Aviv, where Biden was received by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog with hugs.
Biden, already at a joint press conference in Tel Aviv with Netanyahu, said that Washington would provide Israel with everything it needs to defend itself.. Biden said Hamas was worse than the Islamic State for its killings of Israeli civilians in the Oct. 7 surprise attack that the president characterized as a “massacre”. He said Hamas “committed evils and atrocities that make ISIS seem more rational.”
He also added that he was “saddened and outraged” by an explosion at a hospital in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday that Hamas said killed hundreds of people.. “From what I've seen, it seems it was him, not you.”. But there are a lot of people who are not sure, so we have to overcome a lot of things,” Biden said.
The American president stated that the reason he wanted to be in Israel is because they want “people in the world to know who the United States stands with.” “Americans are grieving with you, truly, and they are concerned because this is not an easy situation to navigate, they have to.”. The fact is that when Israel responds to these attacks, it seems to me that we have to continue guaranteeing that they have what they need to defend themselves,” the president stressed.
Biden decided this Tuesday to go ahead with this visit to Israel, but chose not to travel to Jordan, as initially planned, after Arab leaders canceled a quadripartite summit in Jordan due to the massacre at the Al Ahli hospital in Gaza. , to which the Jordanian King Abdullah II, the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas, and the Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah al Sisi, were also going to attend.
Netanyahu's gratitude
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked him for his visit during the war with the militias in the Gaza Strip and said this shows “his deep commitment to Israel, to the future of the Jewish people and to the Jewish State.”
The Israeli president also expressed his gratitude for Biden's statements of support in the conflict against the Islamist group Hamas and stressed that “just as the civilized world united to defeat the Nazis and united to defeat the Islamic State, it should unite to defeat Hamas.”
“I want to thank you for coming here today and for the unequivocal support you have given to Israel during these difficult times, support that reflects the overwhelming will of the American people,” Netanyahu added, during a joint statement with Biden, in which he described that the Cooperation between both countries since the beginning of the war is “unprecedented.”