The sites of Israel strikes amid ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group, Hamas. Photo: AFP
WASHINGTON - U.S. President Joe Biden said in an interview published on Tuesday that Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's approach to the war in Gaza is a "mistake," giving further criticism of Israel's handling of the conflict.
"I think what he's doing is a mistake. I don't agree with his approach," Biden said in comments to Univision, a U.S. Spanish-language TV network.
Biden has also previously called Israel's bombing in Gaza "indiscriminate and its military actions "over the top".
The White House said last week that the president, in a call with Mr Benjamin Netanyahu, threatened to make conditional, U.S. support for Israel's offensive once it takes concrete steps to protect aid workers and civilians. However, the call followed an Israeli airstrike that killed seven staff of the aid group World Central Kitchen.
"What I'm calling for is for the Israelis to just call for a ceasefire, allow for the next six, eight weeks, total access to all food and medicine going into the country," Biden said in Tuesday's interview.
Israel's military assault on Gaza has been the subject of mounting international criticism. Domestically, Biden has also faced months of protests from anti-war activists, Muslims and Arab Americans across the country, who have demanded a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and restrictions on U.S. military assistance for Israel.
Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel killed 1,200 people, according to Israeli tallies. Israel's subsequent military assault on Hamas-governed Gaza has killed over 33,000, according to the local health ministry, displaced nearly all of its 2.3 million population and has led to genocide allegations, that Israel denies. The coastal enclave also suffers widespread hunger.
美國總統稱本傑明·內塔尼亞胡處理加薩戰爭的做法是一個“錯誤”
華盛頓 - 美國總統喬·拜登在周二發表的採訪中表示，以色列總理本傑明·內塔尼亞胡處理加沙戰爭的做法是一個“錯誤”，進一步批評以色列處理衝突的方式。
「我認為他的做法是錯誤的。我不同意他的做法，」拜登在接受美國西班牙語電視網 Univision 的評論時表示。
拜登先前還稱以色列對加薩的轟炸“不分青紅皂白”，其軍事行動“過分”。
白宮上週表示，總統在與班傑明·內塔尼亞胡的通話中威脅稱，一旦以色列採取具體措施保護援助人員和平民，美國就會對以色列的攻擊提供有條件的支持。 然而，這項呼籲是在以色列空襲導致援助組織「世界中央廚房」的七名工作人員死亡之後發出的。
拜登在周二的採訪中說：“我呼籲以色列人呼籲停火，允許在接下來的六到八週內完全獲得進入該國的所有食品和藥品。”
以色列對加薩的軍事攻擊一直受到國際社會越來越多的批評。 在國內，拜登也面臨全國各地反戰活動人士、穆斯林和阿拉伯裔美國人長達數月的抗議，他們要求加薩永久停火並限制美國對以色列的軍事援助。
根據以色列的統計，哈馬斯 10 月 7 日對以色列的襲擊造成 1,200 人死亡。 據當地衛生部稱，以色列隨後對哈馬斯統治的加薩地帶發動軍事襲擊，已造成 33,000 多人死亡，230 萬人口幾乎全部流離失所，並引發了種族滅絕指控，但以色列否認了這一指控。 沿海飛地還遭受廣泛的飢餓。
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