U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday blasted Hamas and said that it does not represent the Palestinian people.
Palestinian Hamas militants take part in an anti-Israel military show in the southern Gaza Strip, on November 11, 2019 © Mena Today
U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday blasted Hamas and said that it does not represent the Palestinian people.
I won't mince words. The overwhelming majority of Palestinians are not Hamas. And Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people," he wrote on X.
"In fact, they're also suffering as a result of Hamas' terrorism. We need to be clear-eyed about that reality.
At least nine Palestinians were killed in Israeli airstrikes in the northern and southern Gaza Strip on Sunday, Hamas civil defence said, in what Israel's military called a response to ceasefire violations.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar will attend U.S. President Donald Trump's first formal Board of Peace meeting on February 19, two Israeli officials said on Saturday.
The opening of the 39th African Union summit in Addis Ababa was marked by a controversial statement from AU Commission Chair Mahamoud Ali Youssouf, who declared that the “extermination” of the Palestinian people “must stop.”
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