President Joe Biden and US election rivals Kamala Harris and Donald Trump marked the first anniversary on Monday of Hamas's 7 October attacks on Israel, as the Middle Eastern conflict threatens to weigh on November's presidential vote.
WASHINGTON - President Joe Biden and US election rivals Kamala Harris and Donald Trump marked the first anniversary on Monday of Hamas's 7 October attacks on Israel, as the Middle Eastern conflict threatens to weigh on November's presidential vote.
"Far too many civilians have suffered far too much during this year of conflict," Biden, who has backed key ally Israel with billions of dollars in arms, said in a statement. Protesters against the Gaza war could be heard in the background as Harris and her husband Doug Emhoff, the first Jewish spouse of a US president or vice president, planted a pomegranate tree in what she said was a symbol of"hope and righteousness."
Trump, Harris's rival in the tooth-and-nail election, paid his respects at the final resting place of a famous rabbi in New York before delivering remarks at an evening event at his Trump National Doral Golf Club in Florida. Earlier he blasted Biden and Harris over their handling of the region in an interview, accusing the incumbent of having the"worst foreign policy of anybody in history probably."The anniversary has underlined Biden and Harris's apparent powerlessness to influence Netanayhu's conduct over the past year, especially now that the Middle East is on the verge of full-scale war.
A small protest against Israel's war in Gaza and Biden's support for Israel took place at New York's Columbia University while hundreds of people rallied in the Wall Street financial district.
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