The US leader’s impatience with his Israeli counterpart grows increasingly visible.
Mr Joe Biden was caught on a hot mic stating that he’d told Netanyahu they would need to have a “come to Jesus” meeting.
With Gaza’s humanitarian crisis growing more dire and Biden’s left flank in uproar, the US president made contradictory remarks as to the question of a “red line” overNetanyahu “has a right to defend Israel, a right to continue to pursue Hamas,” Biden said, but added that “he must pay more attention to the innocent lives being lost as a consequence of the actions taken.”As to Israel’s potential invasion of Rafah, where some 1.5 million of the territory’s 2.
“There is no red line I want to cut off all weapons so they don’t have the Iron Dome to protect them.”on March 7, he was caught on a hot mic stating that he’d told Netanyahu they would need to have a “come to Jesus” meeting, an American expression that refers to a dramatic realisation that one must correct course.
Gaza has faced relentless bombardment by Israel since Hamas launched a shocking cross-border attack on October 7 that resulted in about 1,160 deaths, most of them civilians, according to official figures.Israel’s retaliatory operations in Hamas-controlled Gaza have killed more than 30,800 people, mostly women and children, according to the territory’s health ministry.
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