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Biden 'outraged' by Gaza hospital blast, points to Hamas responsibility
Biden 'outraged' by Gaza hospital blast, points to Hamas responsibility
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Biden 'outraged' by Gaza hospital blast, points to Hamas responsibility
by DZRH News19 October 2023
U.S. President Joe Biden attends a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (not pictured), as he visits Israel amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Tel Aviv, Israel, October 18, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

TEL AVIV (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday that Washington would provide Israel with everything it needed to defend itself as it wages war against the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which he appeared to blame for a devastating blast at a Gaza hospital.

Biden, who landed in Israel and met Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu early on Wednesday, said Hamas was worse than Islamic State for its killings of Israeli civilians in the surprise attack on Oct. 7 which triggered the latest Israel-Palestinian violence.

He said he was "sad and outraged" by an explosion at a hospital in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday which Hamas said killed hundreds of people.

"Based on what I've seen, it appears as though it was done by the other team, not you. But there's a lot of people out there not sure, so we’ve got a lot — we’ve got to overcome a lot of things," Biden said.

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Israel says the blast was caused by a Palestinian rocket that fell short. Hamas denies that. The bloodshed there has stoked already fierce anti-Israel protests in the region.

Biden said 31 Americans were among the more than 1,300 Israelis killed in Hamas's Oct. 7 attack.

(Reporting by Dan Williams, Crispian Balmer, John Davison in Jerusalem, Editing by Angus MacSwan)

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