“You are not alone,” US President Joe Biden said today in Israel during a joint statement with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the beginning of a meeting with Israeli authorities.
“I want you to know that you are not alone, you are not alone. As I emphasized previously, we will continue to support Israel as it works to defend its people. We will continue to work with you and our partners across the region to prevent further tragedies for innocent civilians.“said the American president.
Biden’s lightning visit to Israel comes the day after an explosion at the Al Ahli hospital in Gaza caused hundreds of deaths according to Palestinian sourcesin an incident of which the Israeli Army and the Islamist militias of the Strip accuse each other.
Biden called the massacre committed by Hamas on October 7 as “brutal, inhuman and beyond imagination,” and recalled that the State of Israel was founded 75 years ago on the pillars of “freedom, justice and peace.” ”.
“The United States is at your side in defense of that freedom, to achieve that justice and in support of peace. Today, tomorrow and always,” the president stated at the beginning of the extended meeting between the American delegation – which also includes the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken – with the Israeli war cabinet.
The Israeli version of last night’s incident at the hospital maintains that it was an Islamic Jihad rocket, which accidentally fell into the enclave, that caused the explosion, while the Gaza militias, including Hamas, which controls that territory, blame it. to an Israeli bombing.
“As we move forward in this war, Israel will do everything it can to keep civilians out of harm’s way.. We ask them and continue to ask them to move to safe areas,” Netanyahu said minutes before Biden’s intervention, after he last night blamed the “barbaric terrorists” in Gaza for what happened.
Upon his arrival in Israel, at the beginning of a bilateral meeting with Netanyahu, Biden supported the Israeli thesis and affirmed that the attack was carried out by “the other party.” “Based on what I’ve seen, it seems that it was the other partybut there are a lot of people out there who are not sure, so we have a lot ahead of us,” said the US president.
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