JOE BIDEN was today embarking on a high-stakes visit to Israel and Jordan to reaffirm America’s full backing for action targeting terror group Hamas while seeking to avert a devastating humanitarian crisis in Gaza and avoid an explosive wider regional conflict.
The US president’s visit to the Middle East was announced just over a week after more than 1,400 Israelis were slaughtered by Hamas in Islamic Statestyle rampages, with babies and children among those killed, at least 3,000 more injured and nearly 200 people seized as hostages.
The White House stressed his trip would demonstrate “steadfast support for Israel in the face of Hamas’s brutal terrorist attack” which saw more Jewish people murdered than at any time since the Holocaust and the end of the Second World War.
Mr Biden will meet Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu and also “discuss the humanitarian needs of civilians in Gaza,” where more than 2,800 people have been reported killed in Israeli air attacks and some 10,000 wounded since the October 7 Hamas mass killings.
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