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The Israeli Attacks on the Al Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza: What Do U.S. Efforts Are Wanted?
The purpose was to discuss efforts to get humanitarian aid into Gaza — something that has become a growing concern as the territory runs out of food, water and medical supplies. Americans in the Gaza Strip and other inhabitants of the area have been unable to leave through the crossing into Egypt.
Biden’s visit was largely symbolic but he also managed some concrete accomplishments. These included announcing $100 million in aid to the Palestinians, and convincing Israel to agree to allow humanitarian aid to flow into Gaza and persuading Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sissi to open up a vital land crossing into southern Gaza.
As many as 13 US citizens are believed to be among the 200 hostages taken by Hamas after its attacks on Israel. Biden and Netanyahu talked about how to secure the release of hostages taken by Hamas, including Americans, according to a White House statement.
Biden sought to make clear that the U.S. supported Israel in its response to the attacks by Hamas, but warned the Prime Minister that it was important to protect the lives of innocent Palestinians.
Kirby said Biden would be asking tough questions, but he would also be asking some questions of Israel as a true friend.
Biden was “outraged and profoundly sad” by the explosion at the Al Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza. The United States stands for the protection of civilians in war and we mourn the patients, medical staff, and other innocents killed or wounded.
Biden talked to Netanyahu after the hospital explosion. John Kirby said that Israel had categorically and stridently denied their responsibility.
Biden was going to be in Amman, Jordan, where he was going to talk to King Abdullah II, El-Sissi and the Palestinian Authority President. The Arab leaders called off the meeting following the hospital explosion.
Israel said that it was the militant Palestinian Islamic Jihad group that was behind the hit on the hospital. Hamas and the PIJ said it was an Israeli airstrike that struck families as they were sleeping in the confines of the hospital’s grounds.
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The visit almost didn’t happen. The team weighing whether or not to do it was Biden’s. In a short visit to the Middle East last week, the Secretary of State laid the groundwork, having seven hours of talks with Netanyahu and his war cabinet.
But the trip became more fraught after an explosion at a busy Gaza hospital killed hundreds of people, shortly before Biden left Washington. Biden had initially planned to stop in Amman, Jordan after Tel Aviv to meet with three key leaders about humanitarian aid for Gaza. But that part of the trip was called off.
Biden has gone to war zones before, including a trip toUkraine in February. That travel wasn’t revealed until the president was on the ground in Kyiv.
The White House is giving less information to the public about the trip because of the risks of traveling to the region. During Blinken’s visit to Tel Aviv, sirens went off as a warning of new rocket attacks, and the secretary was moved to a bunker for about five minutes.
There had already been protests after a hospital strike in Egypt. Protests also broke out in Palestinian cities in the West Bank with protesters in Ramallah chanting slogans against Israel and the Palestinian Authority leadership as police tried to disperse them.
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The Israeli army spokesman told reporters that it was a false alarm and that the initial review found it was a dud from Gaza.
He said that there weren’t a lot of strikes on the hospital but that they were still looking at the hit in the parking lot.
The Baptist Al-Ahli hospital was damaged before it was hit by Israel. He said this was followed by a warning from Israel asking why the hospital had not yet been evacuated.
The White House said the president will consult with these leaders in person soon, and that he will remain regularly and directly engaged with each of them over the coming days.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for an immediate humanitarian cease-fire. He said that the fate of the entire region hang in the balance.
Saudi Arabia condemned the heinous crimes committed by the Israeli occupation forces, even after it was in talks to restore relations with Israel.
Hamas continues to launch missiles at Israel. Israel’s Iron Dome intercepts the most. In cities like Jerusalem and Tel Aviv there are air raid sirens.
There is a lot of dead people on the grass outside the hospital. Bloodied and traumatized women and children were show being treated in other nearby hospitals, screaming, shaking or still in shock. Medications have run low in Gaza at the two dozen or so still functioning hospitals, where medical supplies like painkillers have run out.
Israel has told half of Gaza’s population to leave their homes, with hundreds of thousands heading south. But areas in the south, and across Gaza, continue to be hit by Israeli airstrikes.
The senior Health Ministry official gave a press conference after the hospital strike. He stood at a podium, surrounded by the dead bodies of children, including babies.
The doctors were operating on the patients when they heard the explosion. He saw dead and wounded people and ran outside.
“We found one baby on the roof of the hospital,” he said, describing the horrific scene and impact of the explosion. “Many babies died yesterday. Many babies.”
The Up First newsletter: Palestinian refugees in Gaza are at risk of death or disease, and Israel has destroyed a crossing, according to Shoukry
Israel has bombed the crossing several times in the last few days, including as Egyptian workers repaired damage, according to Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry.
A U.N. shelter where thousands of Palestinians were seeking refuge was also struck by Israel on Tuesday, killing six people, according to the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees.
The largest hospital in Gaza is only able to use a few more days of local fuel because its generators are out of fuel, according to the U.N. relief agency.
The U.N. agency also said that every person in Gaza is estimated to have less than a gallon of water for all their needs per day, including for drinking, hygiene and cooking. Because of the damage, that’s part of it.
The U.N. relief agency stated that the population is at risk of death or disease from consuming brackish water from agricultural wells.
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After Biden came to Israel at a time when the country was being attacked by Hamas, Israelis appreciated his courage and support, as he promised that the country would not be alone.
Mr. Netanyahu has instead “brought the Americans into the decision-making process in the security cabinet and the emergency cabinet,” Mr. Barnea wrote. If Israel does something in Gaza, Biden will be held responsible. That obliges him and obliges us.”
Israeli analysts said that this consultation is rare, if not unprecedented, in a relationship this close. If it has potential benefits for Mr. Netanyahu, it also carries risks. It may give him political cover for an extended war, but it may also constrain how he conducts it.
Satellite images show that hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles were already north of Gaza as Israel prepared to send tens of thousands of soldiers into the enclave.
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“The late Ariel Sharon was in the habit of saying, ‘We will defend ourselves, by ourselves,’” wrote Nadav Eyal, an Israeli analyst, in the newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth. Netanyahu has been projecting values in the last few days. He seems to yearn to be the United States’ 51st state. This comes with a price, symbolic as well as practical.”
The Oval Office backdrop is a signal of the gravity that Biden places on these national security matters. The first time he talked to the nation from behind the Resolute desk was in June, after the debt ceiling crisis was averted.
“My administration has been in contact with the leadership of your country from the very beginning, and we will make sure that we protect your people and defend your nation,” Biden said in Tel Aviv.
He had said he was worried that Congress would undermine his promise to back Ukraine in its fight against Russia. The military and economic aid toUkraine was not included in the most recent government funding bill.
“We’re the United States of America for God’s sake, the most powerful nation in the history — not in the world, in the history of the world,” he said in a recent interview with CBS’ 60 Minutes.
“This is … almost the equivalent of trips to American disaster areas,” says Thomas Schwartz, a historian at Vanderbilt University. He says that it was symbolic and meant to show that there is a lot of concern about Israel in the American political system.
It also inevitably ties the administration to whatever comes next, analysts say — including more deadly Israeli airstrikes in the densely populated Gaza Strip, targeting Hamas, and the possibility of a bloody ground campaign, where civilian casualties could quickly mount, further inflaming anger among Israel’s Arab neighbors. More than 3,400 Palestinians have been killed, according to Gaza’s health ministry.
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Biden will make a direct appeal to the public in his prime time speech from the Oval Office, in which he is expected to outline the seriousness of the situation in the Middle East.
The Middle East Institute says the Biden trip reassured Israel that the U.S. needs to actually engage in this question.
That message of engagement was not only directed at Israel, but also to the rest of the Middle East — particularly Iran and the Lebanon-based Hezbollah militia it backs, Katulis says.
Biden’s visit reinforced his earlier warnings, in addition to the hard-power signals sent by U.S. deployment of carrier task groups to the eastern Mediterranean.
“The main threat right now is the prospect of Iran and their proxy in Lebanon joining in,” says Itamar Rabinovich, a former Israeli ambassador to the U.S.
He says Biden and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin “were very clear in warning Iran and Hezbollah, and this was a major contribution by the Biden administration to consolidating the status quo.”
“I don’t think the door is shut between the Biden administration and the key Arab countries just because of the cancellation of the meeting in Amman,” Katulis says.
The president told the people of Israel that justice must be done. I would caution you not to be consumed by the rage you feel. We were angry in the United States after 9/11. While we sought justice and got justice, we also made mistakes.”
Katulis says “there’s genuine concern” among U.S. officials about civilian casualties and “how that can negatively impact the mission itself and achieving the desired goals that Israel has stated.”
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby has said the U.S. is “actively trying to find out exactly where” the American hostages are located and is doing its utmost to gain their release. Hamas has also hinted that it might be open to releasing non-Israelis.
