Rebecca Shabad is a politics reporter for NBC News based in Washington.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Friday praised the speech delivered by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., a day earlier in which he said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has 'lost his way' and called for new elections in Israel. “He made a good speech and I think he expressed a serious concern shared not only by him but by many Americans,' Biden told reporters in the Oval Office when asked what he thought about Schumer's remarks.
Biden has faced ongoing calls from the progressive wing of the Democratic Party to exert more pressure on the Israeli government to make greater efforts to curb Palestinian civilian deaths in Gaza and to increase the delivery of humanitarian aid into the strip. The president has recently authorized U.S. airdrops of aid into Gaza as well as the creation of a temporary pier that could facilitate moving in more assistance.
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