JERUSALEM, March 11 — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday rejected US President Joe Biden’s comment that Israel’s approach to the war in Gaza was “hurting...
JERUSALEM, March 11 — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday rejected US President Joe Biden’s comment that Israel’s approach to the war in Gaza was “hurting Israel more than helping Israel”.
His comments came one day after Biden said Netanyahu “must pay more attention to the innocent lives being lost as a consequence of the actions taken” in Gaza.Biden, who has backed Israel during the five-month-old war with Hamas but whose frustration with Netanyahu is growing increasingly visible, aired his criticism in an interview with MSNBC.
The war in Gaza began with Hamas’s unprecedented October 7 attack on southern Israel, which killed about 1,160 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally of official Israeli figures. Hamas is considered a terrorist group by most Western countries. The group has not said how many of its militants have been killed in the fighting.