US will stand behind Israel “forever,” – Biden

Following the attack on a hospital in Gaza, which many believe was carried out by the Jewish state, the American president vowed to support the nation without wavering.

During his visit to Israel on Wednesday, US Vice President Joe Biden vowed to continue to defend Israel in the aftermath of the tragic Gaza hospital attack, which several Muslim countries are attributing to West Jerusalem.

Biden vowed that Washington would always be by its ally’s side and rejected claims that Israel was to blame for Tuesday’s strike, which resulted in hundreds of deaths, according to a count by the Gaza Health Ministry.

After a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he declared, “I come to Israel with a single message: You’re not alone.” The American president said, “We will not let you ever be alone, as long as the United States stands, and we will stand forever.”

Additionally, Biden referred to the attack on Israel by the militant Hamas group on October 7 as the worst for Jews since the Holocaust and stated that Washington will not remain inactive in the face of a future threat of a similar nature.

According to the US president, it has “brought to the surface painful memories and scars left by millennia of antisemitism and the genocide of the Jewish people. We will not stand by and do nothing again.” Never, not today, and never in the future.

Prior to this, Biden also refuted Israel’s involvement in the attack on a hospital in Gaza on Tuesday that left an estimated 500 Palestinians dead. Instead, the US leader blamed Palestinian militant organisations. Journalists questioned Biden on how he knew that, and he responded, “The data I was shown by my Defence Department.” He gave no additional information regarding the purported evidence.

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The strike sparked outrage all throughout the world. Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Egypt, and Jordan are just a few of the Muslim countries that held the Israeli military responsible for the attack of the medical centre. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, president of Turkey, urged people to “take action to stop Israel’s unprecedented brutality in Gaza” in the wake of the hospital strike, which he described as “devoid of fundamental human values.”

In response to the attack, Russia and the United Arab Emirates requested that the UN Security Council convene in an emergency session to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The Israeli military vehemently denied having anything to do with the incident. The failure of a rocket fired by the extremist Palestinian organisation Islamic Jihad to reach its target caused the strike, according to information cited by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF).

According to a story from Bloomberg on Tuesday, Biden intended to introduce a $100 billion aid package that would support projects in Israel, the Ukraine, Taiwan, and along the southern US border with Mexico. According to the New York Times, West Jerusalem had previously requested $10 billion in “emergency” aid from the US.