President Biden compares the brutality and scale of Oct. 7 violence to 15 Sept. 11 attacks. Speaking in Tel Aviv, Israel, he also reminded Israelis, 'The vast majority of Palestinians are not Hamas.'
A woman reacts as people gather at the site of Al Ahli Arab hospital in central Gaza on Wednesday in the aftermath of an overnight explosion there.JERUSALEM – President Biden accused Hamas of brutality and evil similar to past terrorist attacks on the U.S. on Wednesday, forcefully condemning the Oct. 7 surprise attack on Israel — and also calling on Israel to show restraint as it retaliates against Gaza, where Hamas is based and more than 2 million Palestinians live.
And while he said the U.S. will send $100 million in new funding for aid in Gaza and West Bank, Biden also pledged to ask Congress"for an unprecedented support package for Israel's defense."Israel must also pursue peace, Biden said, saying the countries are"measured by the power of our example." Later, reporters asked the president what made him confident in accepting Israel's explanation that it was not behind the hospital explosion.After the tragedy, both Israel and Palestinian militants accused the other side of being responsible for the explosion.The president arrived in Israel Wednesday, urging Netanyahu to open humanitarian relief corridors to allow badly needed water, fuel and other supplies to enter Gaza.
Israel continues to launch airstrikes on Gaza as Biden is in Israel in the wake of the hospital blast. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for an immediate humanitarian cease-fire. He said too many lives and the fate of the entire region hang in the balance.U.S. President Joe Biden is shown arriving at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport on Wednesday, Oct. 18, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas.
"We don't see a direct hit at the hospital, we see kind of a hit in the parking lot but we're still finishing the investigation of that," he said, before adding that Israel continues to gather intel, including off Al-Jazeera live footage and other sources.Israeli army spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari speaks to the press from The Kirya, which houses the Israeli Ministry of Defence, in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, Oct. 18.
The United Arab Emirates, which has close security and trade ties with Israel, said that it, too, condemns Israel over the hospital tragedy. He said that before Al Ahli hospital was hit, Israel had shelled the hospital twice, causing some damage. He said this was followed by a warning from Israel asking why the hospital had not yet been evacuated.
Footage online and carried on channels like Al-Jazeera show the carnage of dead bodies strewn on the grass outside the hospital. Bloodied and traumatized women and children were show being treated in other nearby hospitals, screaming, shaking or still in shock. Medications have run low in Gaza at the two dozen or so still functioning hospitals, where medical supplies like painkillers have run out.
Medical student Tasneen Ahl's home in Gaza City has already been destroyed in this war. She and dozens of family members, including 10 children, remain the city, though. She says her family isn't leaving because hundreds of people have been killed in the south after evacuating there.She says the last time she drank a sip of water was over 24 hours ago. Ahl says her father walked over a mile to source flour for bread. The family is cooking on woodfire because of power outages.
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