The variety of US residents killed within the Israel-Hamas struggle rises to 22

WASHINGTON: The variety of US residents confirmed to have been killed within the Israel-Hamas struggle has risen to 22, the State Division stated Wednesday.
That is a rise from the 14 who’d been confirmed lifeless in the future earlier.
US residents are also among the many estimated 150 hostages captured by Hamas throughout its surprising weekend assault on Israel, President Joe Biden confirmed on Tuesday. The struggle has already claimed no less than 2,200 lives on each side.
Biden, who is about to satisfy with Jewish leaders later Wednesday, sought to attach the assaults by Hamas militants on to a long time of antisemitism and violence endured by Jews all over the world.
“This assault has dropped at the floor the painful recollections and scars left by a millennium of antisemitism and genocide towards the Jewish folks,” Biden advised reporters.
“And this second we’ve to be crystal clear: There isn’t any justification for terrorism, no excuse and the kind of terrorism that was exhibited right here is simply past the pale, past the pale.”
Biden stated he and Vice President Kamala Harris spoke by cellphone on Wednesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It was no less than the fourth name between Biden and Netanyahu since Saturday’s assault.
Now we have to be crystal clear. There isn’t any justification for terrorism,” Biden stated. “The US has Israel’s again and we’ll be engaged on this by the day and past.”