Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu highlighted this Tuesday that Hamas’s attack on Israel was “a savagery not seen since the Holocaust,” during a telephone conversation with the President of the United States, Joe Biden.
“On Saturday we were hit by an attack of savagery unseen since the Holocaust,” said Netanyahu, in a video released by his office.
“Hundreds of massacres, families destroyed in their beds, in their homes, women brutally raped and murdered, more than a hundred kidnappings (…), they took dozens of children, tied them up, burned them and executed them, they beheaded soldiers,” he added. the Israeli leader, in a telephone conversation with the American head of state.
This Tuesday, Joe Biden unreservedly assumed the role of Israel’s main supporter, guaranteeing that he will help the Jewish State defend itself from “pure evil.”
“There are moments (…) when pure evil hits the world. The people of Israel have just experienced one of those moments, at the blood-covered hands of the terrorist organization Hamas,” the American president stressed.
“We must be absolutely clear. We support Israel,” stressed Joe Biden, in the presence of Vice President Kamala Harris and the head of diplomacy Antony Blinken, who will visit the Jewish State as a sign of “solidarity and support.”
The Palestinian Islamic group considered Biden’s statements defamatory and accused the American of wanting to “cover up Israel’s crimes.”
Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israeli territory on Saturday, called Operation “Al-Aqsa Storm”, with the launch of thousands of rockets and the incursion of armed militiamen by land, sea and air.
In response to the surprise attack, Israel bombed several Hamas facilities in the Gaza Strip from the air, in an operation it called “Iron Swords.”
During the incursion into Israeli territory, Hamas took more than a hundred civilian and military hostages, which they took to the Gaza Strip.
Israel’s military response, which declared war on Hamas following the attack, led to the deaths of more than 800 people in Gaza, according to the most recent reports.
On the Israeli side, a senior military officer said the death toll exceeded 1,000.
Source: TSF
