Biden In Israel

From the BBC Live:

“A quick recap of that Biden statement”

President Biden has finished speaking - while we've already heard a lot of what he said, here's a quick summary of the key points.

On the Gazan hospital blast last night, he said he was "outraged and saddened" at the enormous loss of life - and the evidence points to "an errant rocket fired by a terrorist group in Gaza"

On aid, he said he had asked the Israeli cabinet to agree the delivery of "live-saving humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza" based on the understanding it would go to civilians not Hamas - and that Israel had agreed aid could "begin to move from Egypt to Gaza"

On US funding, he announced US$100m "new US funding for humanitarian assistance to both Gaza and the West Bank" - there was also the promise of an imminent and "unprecedented" defence package for Israel, which he said he would ask Congress for later this week

To Israeli people, he said their country was "born to be a safe place for the Jewish people of the world" and pledged that the US would do "everything in our power" to achieve that once more

^ It was a good, quick trip to show America’s support to Israel. ^