President Joe Biden told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday upon landing in Israel that an explosion that killed many in a Gaza Strip hospital on Tuesday appears to not have been caused by Israel.
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"Based on what I've seen, it appears as though it was done by the other team, not you," Biden said Wednesday in his bilateral meeting the Netanyahu. at the Tel Aviv Kempinski Hotel, his first stop in the solidarity visit to express support for Israel in thew wake of the Hamas massacre of some 1,300 Israeli residents on Oct. 7.
Biden said there were "a lot of people out there" who weren't sure what caused the blast. The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry said an Israeli airstrike caused the destruction. The Israeli military denied involvement and blamed a misfired rocket from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, another terrorist group. The IDF even provided proof, including by the anti-Israel network Al-Jazeera.
Biden said on Wednesday that Washington would provide Israel with everything it needed to defend itself as it wages war against the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas
Video: Biden meets with PM Netanyahu in Israel / Credit: Reuters
Biden said Hamas was worse than Islamic State for its killings of Israeli civilians in the surprise attack on Oct. 7 which triggered the latest Israel-Palestinian violence.
He said he was "sad and outraged" by an explosion at a hospital in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday which Hamas said killed hundreds of people.
"Based on what I've seen, it appears as though it was done by the other team, not you. But there's a lot of people out there not sure, so we've got a lot – we've got to overcome a lot of things," Biden said.
Biden said 31 Americans were among the more than 1,300 Israelis killed in Hamas's Oct. 7 attack.
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