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LANDMARK SPEECH. Protesters and family members of Israelis held hostage since the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas militants hold a rally outside of the US Capitol on the National Mall on July 23 , in Washington, DC. The protesters and family members called for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept a peace deal on the eve of his address to Congress.
Prior to departing Israel on Monday, Netanyahu said he would “seek to anchor the bipartisan support that is so important for Israel” in his address to Congress. Netanyahu will also meet with Trump — with whose administration he had a much less fraught relationship than Biden’s — in Florida on Friday. But Netanyahu has lost backing among some liberal lawmakers, including independent Senator Bernie Sanders, who said Tuesday “Netanyahu should not be welcomed into the US Congress.”
Israel has recently intensified its attacks on Gaza and Netanyahu has insisted that only piling on military pressure can free the hostages and defeat Hamas, which launched a shock attack on October 7 that resulted in the deaths of 1,197 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli figures.
Publicly, Biden has voiced strong support for Israel. But he expressed concern over an offensive on the southern Gaza city of Rafah and suspended a shipment of 2,000-pound bombs to Israel over fears that they would be used in populated areas.
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