President Joe Biden attacked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu telling Univision his handling of Gaza is a 'mistake.'
President Joe Biden joins family caregivers, care workers, early childhood educators and advocates to celebrate progress made by care champions while calling for additional legislative action at a rally in Union Station on April 9, 2024 in Washington, D.C.In an interview with Univision set to air Tuesday night, Biden said he disagreed with how Netanyahu is handling Gaza, with over 30,000 Palestinians now dead after close to six months of conflict.
Biden stopped short of calling for a permanent ceasefire, instead saying he advocates for an extended peace period to allow more food and medical aid to enter Gaza. “What I’m calling for is for the Israelis to just call for a cease-fire, allow for the next six, eight weeks, total access to all food and medicine going into the country,” Biden told Univision. “There’s no excuse to not provide for the medical and the food needs of those people. It should be done now.”The Biden administration approved over 2,000 additional bombs
to be sent to Israel last last month. Last week, seven humanitarian aid workers with World Central Kitchen were killed by an Israeli air strike, leading to new calls for the U.S. to place conditions on the aid it’s sending to Israel.days after the World Central Kitchen deaths. He made clear during the call that U.S.
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