Africa-Press – Lesotho. U. S. President Joe Biden on Wednesday said he received information from the Pentagon that indicated the Israeli Defense Forces were not behind the Gaza hospital blast of Tuesday evening, which killed hundreds of people sheltering inside.
In a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv earlier Wednesday, Biden said that the deadly attack on Gaza’s al-Ahli Baptist Hospital appeared to have been caused “by the other team.
” Horrific scenes of the wounded ignited street protests in capitals across the region.
Biden’s diplomatic trip to Israel is part of an effort to show “solidarity” with Israel, following a devastating and coordinated Oct. 7 attack by the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
One Israeli cabinet minister was barred from a hospital visitors’ entrance. Another’s bodyguards were drenched with coffee thrown by a bereaved man. A third had “traitor” and “imbecile” shouted at her as she came to comfort families evacuated during the horror.
The shock Oct. 7 massacre by Hamas gunmen has rallied Israelis to one another. But there is little love shown for a government being widely accused of dropping the country’s guard and engulfing it in a Gaza war that is rattling the region.
Whatever ensues, a day of judgment looms for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after a record-long career of political comebacks. Public fury over some 1,300 Israeli fatalities has been further fueled by Netanyahu’s signature self-styling as a Churchillian strategist who foresaw national-security threats.
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