President Joe Biden spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday as the conflict between Israel and Islamist terrorist group Hamas continued into its seventh day.
Biden during the call reiterated his strong support for Israel’s right to defend itself against missile attacks from Hamas, for whom Tehran voiced support, and other terrorist groups. Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and other militant groups have fired around 2,300 rockets from Gaza into Israel since Monday, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said on Saturday. It said about 1,000 rockets were intercepted by its missile defences but that 380 were misfired and into the Gaza Strip, adding to the death and injury of civilians in Gaza.
