US President Joe Biden referred to the war in the Gaza Strip at a fundraising event in New York, saying that "there are too many innocent victims - Israelis and Palestinians.
U.S. President Joe Biden, former U.S. Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton participate in a discussion moderated by Stephen Colbert, host of CBS's "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert", during a campaign fundraising event at Radio City Music Hall in New York, U.S., March 28, 2024. Reuters/Elizabeth Frantz
US President Joe Biden referred to the war in the Gaza Strip at a fundraising event in New York, saying that "there are too many innocent victims - Israelis and Palestinians.
We must get more food, medicine and supplies for the Palestinians." Biden emphasized that "we cannot forget that the very existence of Israel is at stake. Israelis were massacred. Imagine if this happened in the U.S. It is understandable that Israel has such deep anger. But we must stop the war effort that causes the significant death of innocent civilians." (Daniel Edelson, New York)
Joe Biden is expected to use Israel’s killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar to pressure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to wind down the war in Gaza, but in the waning months of his term the U.S. president may lack leverage to bend the Israeli leader to his will.
Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, mastermind of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that triggered the Gaza war, was killed on Thursday, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said.
Israel said on Thursday that Yahya Sinwar, the overall leader of Hamas and the architect of the Palestinian group's Oct. 7, 2023 attacks on Israeli soil, had been killed.
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