Video: Biden meets with Netanyahu: "We will discuss the difficult issues - such as preserving democratic values"
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has invited US President Joe Biden to visit Israel, sources told Walla! Two senior Israeli officials. They added that Biden could arrive in Israel as early as this week. One senior Israeli official said the date being considered for the visit was Wednesday. The invitation was first reported by Channel 12 News. The White House said in response: "We have no announcement of any planned visits." The Prime Minister's Office declined to comment. Egyptian sources said President el-Sisi invited Biden to attend an international conference Egypt will convene on Saturday on the war in Gaza.
See all the updates on the war Last week, the American president made a statement and expressed full and unequivocal support for Israel and the IDF following the war
in the south. During the statement, the president strongly attacked Hamas, warning Iran and Hezbollah: "Any country or organization that is considering taking advantage of the situation, I have one thing to tell you - don't do it."
"The bloody hands of the Hamas terrorist organization, an organization whose stated goal is to kill Jews, is an act of pure evil," Biden said. "More than a thousand civilians have been slaughtered in Israel, parents have been slaughtered while trying to protect their children with their bodies, stomach-turning reports of babies being murdered, entire families have been slaughtered, young people have been slaughtered at a music festival celebrating peace, women are raped and presented as a reward, families have hidden in fear for hours trying to silence their children in an attempt not to hear, and thousands of wounded who will take with them the bullet holes, shrapnel and memories of what they experienced. You know traumas like this don't go away."
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