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Joe Biden in a photo from this Tuesday (12); Later, at an event with campaign donors, the president criticized Israel's behavior in the conflict against Hamas
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On Tuesday (December 12), the UN General Assembly passed a resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas. This came after the US vetoed the measure during a Security Council meeting the previous week.
And although the American reiterated that Israel could count on US support, Biden issued a clearer warning to the Middle Eastern country's government.
“Israel’s security may lie in the United States, but right now there is more than just the United States. There is the European Union, there is Europe, there is most of the world,” he told donors in Washington.
“But with the indiscriminate bombings, they are starting to lose that support,” he said.
However, Biden added that “there is no doubt about the need to confront Hamas” and that Israel has “every right” to do so.
The US president faces increasing pressure, including from within his own Democratic Party, to control Israel's military campaign.
Biden's statements are consistent with his administration's recent stance on war which has already called on Israel to “value human life” and provide clearer instructions to allow people to escape the conflict.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said a few days ago that there was a “gap” between the Israeli authorities’ promises to spare civilians in Gaza and reality.
Senior US officials also expressed increasing dissatisfaction with Israel's military response.
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Smoke over Gaza in a photo taken this Tuesday from southern Israel
The Hamasrun Health Ministry in Gaza said more than 18,400 people had been killed by Israeli bombings since October 7, when Hamas breached Israel's heavily guarded borders and killed 1,200 people.
In a statement released Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel received “full support” from the United States for its ground offensive as well as its goal of destroying Hamas and freeing hostages.
Netanyahu added that Washington had blocked “international pressure to end the war.”
Biden alluded to the differences between the two governments in his remarks on Tuesday, saying Netanyahu needs to “change” his administration, as well as his stance on a twostate solution which U.S. officials have promoted as a way forward. War.
This proposal is supported by the international community to end the decadeslong conflict and would lead to the creation of an independent Palestinian state in Gaza and the West Bank, existing alongside Israel.
“This is the most conservative administration in Israel’s history,” Biden said. “This Israeli government is making things very difficult. She doesn’t want a twostate solution.”
Netanyahu has said he rejects U.S. demands that the Palestinian Authority, which currently administers parts of the Israelioccupied West Bank, take control of Gaza.