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Joe Biden on Wednesday delivered full US backing for Israel in person, on a solidarity visit in which he blamed Islamist militants for a deadly rocket strike on a Gaza hospital and announced the resumption of urgent aid to the besieged Palestinian enclave.
The official also backed Biden and the Israelis’ account, who said the strike at the Christian-run hospital was from a malfunctioning Palestinian rocket. Biden has defended Israel’s right to defend itself, and understood the “all-consuming rage” to hit back at those responsible for the October 7 attacks, which saw Hamas fighters shoot, mutilate or burn to death some 1,400 people.
Biden also announced plans for “unprecedented” aid for Israel and the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, as part of a wider $100 billion package that includes support for Ukraine. Arab countries have almost universally blamed Israel for the hospital strike, either directly or through state media — including Egypt, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates, which are among the region’s few countries which have diplomatic relations with Israel.
Overnight, after the explosion, AFP reporters saw scores of bodies cloaked in blood-stained sheets and white plastic lined the floors at the nearby the Al-Shifa hospital, where bereaved relatives tried to identify loved ones. Hamas has dismissed Israel’s claim of a misfiring rocket, saying its “outrageous lies do not deceive anyone”.“The continued endorsement of the Zionist narrative by the US administration makes it complicit in the occupation’s massacres and the Baptist hospital massacre in Gaza,” it said.Entire Gaza neighbourhoods have been razed and survivors are left with dwindling supplies of food, water and fuel, unable to flee the 40-kilometre long strip blockaded by Israel and Egypt since 2007.
Inside Gaza, hundreds of Palestinians who hold US or other foreign passports have desperately hoped to escape through the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, the only way in or out of Gaza not controlled by Israel.
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