PresidentJoe Bidenis showing that the U.S. stands in solidarity with Israel amid Hamas attacks.
On Wednesday, Biden arrived in Israel and met with Israel Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu, declaring that he wanted the people of Israel and the world “to know where the United States stands” inIsrael’s war against Hamas.
Biden also told the prime minister that they would make sure Israel has what it needs to “defend” itselfagainst Hamas attacks.
The president also noted that he understands Hamas “does not represent all the Palestinian people,” and he encouraged “life-saving capacity” for all the innocent “Palestinians caught in all this.”
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) greets U.S. President Joe Biden upon his arrival at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport on Oct. 18, 2023.BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty
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Biden’s presence in the Middle Eastern country comes one day after ablast killed more than 500 peoplewho were sheltering in a Gaza hospital, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.
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“The world is looking. Israel has a value set like the United States does, and other democracies, and they’re looking to see what we’re going to do,” Biden concluded his statement to Netanyahu.
In return, the Israeli prime minister called Biden’s presence as the first American president to visit Israel at a time of war “deeply, deeply moving,” per CNN.
President Joe Biden on Nov. 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C.Samuel Corum/Getty
The Biden Administration is also reportedly drafting a $100 billion foreign-aid package, which will include $10 billion assistance for Israel, sources toldABC News.
Amid the recent attacks, theIsrael Defense Forcesissued a press release on Friday that called “for the evacuation of all civilians of Gaza City from their homes southwards for their own safety and protection and to move to the area south of the Wadi Gaza.”
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