US President Joe Biden issued some of his sternest criticism yet of Israel's war on Hamas, calling its approach a 'mistake' as the country faces a Wednesday court deadline to prove it is not throttling aid to hunger-stricken Gaza.
US President Joe Biden issued some of his sternest criticism yet of Israel's war on Hamas, calling its approach a "mistake" as the country faces a Wednesday court deadline to prove it is not throttling aid to hunger-stricken Gaza. With global outrage over the toll inflicted by the six-month-old war growing, Biden rebuked Israeli Prime…
“I think what he’s doing is a mistake. I don’t agree with his approach,” Biden told Spanish-language TV network Univision in an interview that aired Tuesday night. The government faces a Wednesday deadline from the country’s Supreme Court to demonstrate it has taken steps to increase the flow of humanitarian goods.
The Israeli agency that oversees supplies into the territory, COGAT, said 741 aid trucks had crossed into Gaza on Sunday and Monday, with another 468 entering on Tuesday.Samantha Power, administrator of the US Agency for International Development , said recent days have seen a “sea change” in deliveries to Gaza, but added that Israel needs to do more.
Finding himself increasingly internationally isolated over the bloodiest-ever Gaza war, Netanyahu on Tuesday told military recruits that “no force in the world” would stop Israeli troops from entering the southern Gazan city of Rafah. US officials have repeatedly aired objections to such an attack, including during Biden’s call last week with Netanyahu.
Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed at least 33,360 people in Gaza, mostly women and children, according to the Hamas-run territory’s health ministry. The World Health Organisation said Israel’s two-week raid had transformed Gaza’s largest medical complex into a ruin. Operatives of the anti-kidnapping unit of the Imo State Police Command have arrested a suspected terrorist, Chidebere Nwuzor, 38, of Amauzu, Aboh Mbaise Local Council of the state.
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