Biden Says Evidence Suggests Israel Not Responsible For Gaza Hospital Blast As He Begins Solidarity Trip: “It Appears As Though It Was Done By The Other Team”
deadline.comU.S. President Joe Biden told a press conference in Tel Aviv on Wednesday that Israel did not appear to be responsible for a deadly blast at the al-Ahli hospital in Gaza on Tuesday evening, which has enflamed tensions across the Middle East. “I’m deeply saddened and outraged at the explosion at the hospital in Gaza yesterday.
And based on what I’ve seen, it appears as though it was done by the other team, and not you. But there’s a lot of people out there who are not sure,” Biden said in a joint press briefing alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The president was making his comments as he began a trip to Israel to signal U.S. solidarity for the country in the aftermath of the Hamas terror attack on October 7, which killed more than 1,400 and resulted in the taking of 199 hostages.
Hamas has said the hospital explosion was due to an Israeli airstrike, but the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) presented photographic evidence on Wednesday that it said showed Israel was not responsible for the blast which killed hundreds of patients and sheltering civilians.
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