2023-12-23 19:14:23
The White House said that US President Joe Biden spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday to discuss the situation in Israel and Gaza.
In particular, Netanyahu’s office said in a statement that the Israeli Prime Minister expressed to Biden his appreciation for the United States’ position in the Security Council.
The statement said that Netanyahu “also made clear that Israel will continue the war until all of its goals are fully achieved.”
On Friday, the UN Security Council adopted a draft law calling for the delivery of humanitarian aid “urgently” and “on a large scale” to Gaza, and did not call for an “urgent and permanent cessation of hostilities” as stated in the first draft, to which several changes were made.
Biden and Netanyahu’s call came as battles raged on Saturday between the Israeli army and Hamas militants in the north and south of the Gaza Strip.
The agency reported Archyde.comOn Saturday, thick smoke rose over the northern town of Jabalia, which includes the largest refugee camp in Gaza.
Residents reported continued aerial bombardment and shelling from Israeli tanks, which they said had penetrated into the town.
Since the beginning of the war on October 7, following the Hamas attack on Israel, Biden has sought to spare the region from a broader war.
A Wall Street Journal report said on Saturday that the US President was behind stopping an imminent Israeli attack on Hezbollah.
Newspaper: A call from Biden to Netanyahu prevented a strike that might have ignited a regional war
The Wall Street Journal revealed that US President Joe Biden urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last October to stop a pre-emptive strike he was planning once morest Hezbollah in Lebanon, days following the attack by Hamas fighters on October 7. On southern Israel, he warned that such an attack might spark a broader regional war.
About a week ago, Biden urged Israel to “be more careful” to protect civilians in Gaza, following the White House pressured the Hebrew state to reduce the intensity of its attack in the Strip in the near future.
Biden told reporters following an event at a medical research center near Washington, “I want them to focus on how to save civilian lives, not to stop pursuing Hamas, but to be more careful.”
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