Meanwhile, the State Department said the number of U.S. citizens killed during the Hamas-Israel war had risen to 22.
President Joe Biden says the weekend attack by Hamas militants on Israel was the deadliest against Jews since the Holocaust and called it a "campaign of pure cruelty."
U.S. citizens also are among the estimated 150 hostages captured by Hamas militants during their shocking weekend assault on Israel,confirmed on Tuesday. The war has already claimed at least 2,200 lives on both sides. Biden, who is set to meet with Jewish leaders later Wednesday, sought to connect the Hamas attacks directly to decades of antisemitism and violence endured by Jews around the world.
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