The White House said the US president will ‘ask some tough questions’ when he meets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ‘as a friend’.
US President Joe Biden has arrived in Israel for a diplomatic bid to prevent the war with Hamas from spiralling into an even larger conflict
Now his only stop will be Tel Aviv, where he is expected to push for allowing critical humanitarian aid into Gaza during meetings with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Roughly 2,800 Palestinians have been reported killed by Israeli strikes in Gaza. Another 1,200 people are believed to be buried under the rubble, alive or dead, health authorities said.
He also said he “directed my national security team to continue gathering information about what exactly happened”. Outrage over the hospital explosion scuttled Mr Biden’s plans to visit Jordan, where King Abdullah II had planned to host meetings with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. But Mr Abbas withdrew in protest, and the summit was subsequently cancelled outright.
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