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US President Joe Biden on Sunday Mentioned that Hamas is utilizing harmless Palestinian households as human shields in its assault on Israel.

He mentioned that almost all of Palestinians have something to do with Hamas.

Talking at a gala dinner for the Human Rights Marketing campaign in Washington, Biden mentioned, “The humanitarian disaster in Gaza, harmless Palestinian households, and the overwhelming majority don’t have anything to do with Hamas.”

“They’re getting used as human shields,” he added.

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Biden claimed that the phobia assault launched by Hamas was the bloodiest day for Jews because the Holocaust and that the Hamas terror organisation had used Palestinian civilians as human shields to keep away from Israeli reprisals, based on The Occasions of Israel.

The President mentioned that the day earlier than, he chatted on Zoom for an hour with family of People who’re nonetheless lacking, and he relates this to his personal experiences, together with the lack of his first spouse and daughter in a car accident in 1972.

“They’ve endured an agony not realizing what’s occurring. It is not the identical factor, however I can inform you what it is like. It is one factor to lose anyone you recognize you are going to lose … like I used to be capable of do with my son,” Biden mentioned.

Because the Israel-Hamas conflict broke out on October 7, the US has expressed sturdy solidarity with the individuals of Israel and has assured full assist to the nation in its struggle towards Hamas terrorists.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has mentioned that Hamas is a terrorist group and its solely agenda is to destroy Israel and homicide Jews. He mentioned the group isn’t a consultant of the Palestinian individuals or their respectable aspirations for the longer term.

“Hamas isn’t a consultant of the Palestinian individuals or their respectable aspirations for the longer term. Hamas is a terrorist group and its solely agenda is to destroy Israel and homicide Jews. And it’s important that your complete world sees it as such. This is a vital second for extra readability in terms of Hamas,” the US State Secretary mentioned throughout a gathering with Saudi International Minister Prince Faisal Bin Farhan just lately.

Blinken additional mentioned that no nation can or needs to be anticipated to tolerate what Israel has simply been on the receiving finish of, which is an assault that additionally defies description in phrases, during which 1300 of its individuals had been slaughtered together with the nationals of greater than 30 different international locations by Hamas.

Blinken is on a go to to Israel, Jordan, Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt from October 11-15 to fulfill with senior officers and reiterate his condemnation of the terrorist assaults in Israel, reaffirming the US’ solidarity with the federal government and other people of Israel, as per a launch issued by the US State Division.

Earlier, Blinken mentioned that efforts to carry humanitarian help to Gaza have been “sophisticated” as terrorist group Hamas continues to make use of civilians as “human shields” and is reportedly blocking roads to forestall Palestinians from relocating to southern Gaza.

Terming the humanitarian state of affairs as “pressing” Blinken added that the US is actively engaged with its companions, together with Qatar to supply humanitarian help to those that are in want. He famous that Israel is finishing up operations in Gaza as Hamas carried out terrorist assaults that killed 1,300 Israelis within the “most horrific manner.”

In the meantime, Israeli troops are mobilizing in direction of Gaza. Aerial patrolling can be being despatched on the Gaza border.

It was just lately reported that Israeli troopers, their tanks and munitions have been deployed close to the Gaza border as they put together for a full floor offensive towards Hamas.

Within the footage coming in from the Gaza border, tanks might be seen firing shells in direction of the Gaza Strip. Furthermore, troopers are seen loading artillery shells into howitzers.
 

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