US President Joe Biden landed in Tel Aviv on Wednesday on a solidarity visit after the Hamas attack, under the shadow of a deadly explosion at a hospital in Gaza that further inflamed regional tensions.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu personally greeted Biden on the runway, hugging the US president who then hugged Netanyahu.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked the visiting US president on Wednesday for his “unequivocal support” in the war in Gaza and gave him an updated death toll from the Hamas attack.
“I want to thank you for coming here today and for the unequivocal support you have given Israel in these difficult times. It is a support that reflects the tremendous will of the American people. I have seen your support every day and the depth and breadth of cooperation that we have had since the beginning which is truly unprecedented in the history of the great alliance between our two peoples,” Netanyahu said to Biden.
The US president said on Wednesday that Washington will provide Israel with everything it needs to defend itself as it wages war against the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
Biden, who landed in Israel and met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu early Wednesday, said that “Hamas behaved worse than the Islamic State group in killing Israeli civilians in a surprise attack on October 7 that sparked the latest Israeli-Palestinian violence. ”
In his solidarity visit to Israel on Wednesday, Biden supported his ally Israel’s claim “that Palestinian militants launched a devastating attack on a hospital in Gaza,” adding that Hamas had brought “only suffering.”
“I am deeply saddened and outraged by yesterday’s explosion at a hospital in Gaza. And based on what I have seen, it appears that it was done by someone other than your forces,” Biden said during the meeting, addressing Netanyahu directly at a press conference, Fena reports.
