Biden Escalates Criticism of Israel After Aid Worker Deaths
- Israel hasn’t done enough to protect aid efforts, Biden says
- UK, Australian leaders speak to Netanyahu after Gaza strike
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President Joe Biden said Israel hadn’t done enough to protect civilians after the death of seven aid workers, in some of his sternest criticism yet of the country’s conduct in the months since it launched a military campaign against Hamas in Gaza.
“This conflict has been one of the worst in recent memory in terms of how many aid workers have been killed,” Biden said in a statement released Tuesday night. “This is a major reason why distributing humanitarian aid in Gaza has been so difficult – because Israel has not done enough to protect aid workers trying to deliver desperately needed help to civilians.”