“We are monitoring the situation in Israel very closely,” Biden told reporters on Wednesday. The Vice President and I and most of my security team spoke again this morning with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “This attack has revived the painful memories and wounds of centuries of anti-Semitism and genocide against the Jewish people,” he said. Has been defeated by.
More than 1200 people were killed in Hamas’s shocking attack on Israel. In retaliation, about 1100 people have been killed in the air strikes carried out by Israel in Gaza. Biden met with Jewish community leaders and reaffirmed his unwavering support for Israel over terrorist attacks.
“This attack was an absolutely brutal campaign … an absolutely brutal campaign against the Jewish people,” Biden said. And I consider it the deadliest day for the Jews since the ‘Holocaust’. One of the worst chapters in human history.
“I mean, even silence is complicity,” Biden told Jewish leaders gathered at the White House. It is really so. And I want to tell you, I think you’ve already figured it out, that I refuse to be silent. I also know that you also refuse to remain silent.
Biden said, “Terrorist groups like Hamas bring to the world not only terror but only evil, evil that echoes the worst, and in some cases equals, the worst atrocities of ISIS (a terrorist organization) or There is more than that. More than 1,000 civilians were murdered in Israel.
At least 22 American citizens are also among the victims and dead of this attack. The US is providing additional military assistance to the Israeli Defense Forces, which includes ammunition and ‘interceptors’. The US has dispatched an aircraft carrier to the eastern Mediterranean and is sending more fighter planes to the region. Biden condemned Hamas’ downplaying of atrocities and blaming Israel, calling it ‘inappropriate’.
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