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JERUSALEM (AP) — A far-right minister in Israel’s government has criticized
President Joe Biden and said that having Donald Trump in power would allow more
freedom to fight Hamas. The comments sparked outrage among other Israeli
officials on Sunday and highlighted the sensitivity of relations as U.S.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken visits the region again this week.
The Biden administration has skirted Congress to rush weapons to Israel and
shielded it from international calls for a cease-fire in the four months since
Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack. But the White House has urged Israel to take greater
measures to avoid harming civilians and allow more aid to besieged Gaza.
Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s national security minister, said in an interview with
The Wall Street Journal that Biden was hindering Israel’s war effort.
“Instead of giving us his full backing, Biden is busy with giving humanitarian
aid and fuel (to Gaza), which goes to Hamas,” Ben-Gvir said. “If Trump was in
power, the U.S. conduct would be completely different.”
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His remarks drew fire from Benny Gantz, a retired general and member of
Netanyahu’s three-man War Cabinet, who said Ben-Gvir was “causing tremendous
damage” to U.S.-Israeli relations. Opposition leader Yair Lapid, also posting on
X, said Ben-Gvir’s remarks prove that he “does not understand foreign
relations.”
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry condemned Ben-Gvir’s comments as “racist” and
called for international sanctions against him, saying he threatens the region’s
stability.
Netanyahu, without mentioning Ben-Gvir by name, appeared to refer to his remarks
during a weekly Cabinet meeting. “I am not in need of any assistance in
navigating our relations with the U.S. and the international community,” he
said.
Ben-Gvir, along with other far-right figures, has called for “voluntary” mass
emigration of Palestinians from Gaza and the return of Jewish settlements, which
Israel dismantled when it withdrew troops from the territory in 2005. The Biden
administration opposes any such scenario.
This is a locator map of Israel and the Palestinian Territories. (AP Photo)
Ben-Gvir and other key members of Netanyahu’s governing coalition have
threatened to bring down the government if they believe he is too soft on Hamas.
Netanyahu said the military was carrying out “very aggressive raids” in northern
and central Gaza while dealing with remaining Hamas battalions around Gaza’s
southernmost city of Rafah.
Israel’s military said Sunday it had raided the headquarters of Hamas’ brigade
in Khan Younis in the south and found what it called training materials for the
Oct. 7 attack including “models simulating entrance gates of Israeli kibbutzim,
military bases and IDF armored vehicles.”
The war in Gaza has leveled vast swaths of the tiny enclave, displaced 85% of
its population and pushed a quarter of residents to starvation. The Health
Ministry in Gaza said 127 bodies had been brought to hospitals in the last 24
hours, bringing the overall death toll to 27,365. The ministry does not
distinguish between civilians and combatants but says most of those killed are
women and children.
In central Gaza, Israeli airstrikes hit two houses and a mosque in Deir al-Balah
and killed 29 people and wounded at least 60 others including children,
according to an Associated Press journalist at the scene. At Aqsa Martyrs
Hospital, a nurse cleaned the head injuries of a boy who sat between two other
children, one trembling, the other in tears.
Other Palestinians found shelter at the hospital but little relief. “Someone
like me has been here for three months or two-and-a-half months, and I haven’t
had a shower. What can we do? We want to go back to our home,” said Basemah
Al-Haddad, displaced from Gaza City.
Two children were killed in separate airstrikes in Rafah, according to the
registration office at the hospital where the bodies were taken. The first hit a
house in the Jeneina refugee camp and killed a 12-year-old. The second hit a
room west of the Rafah border crossing, killing a 2-year-old.
Palestinians watch a car burn after it was hit by an Israeli in Rafah, Gaza
Strip, Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024. (AP Photo/Hatem Ali)
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The bodies lay on the hospital floor. A female relative bent down to gently
touch one child’s face.
More humanitarian aid to Gaza will be a “top priority” as Blinken visits the
region, Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, told CBS. Blinken is
set to begin Monday in Saudi Arabia and will stop in Egypt, Qatar, Israel and
the West Bank.
Another focus is Israel’s tense negotiations mediated by the U.S., Qatar and
Egypt aimed at freeing more than 100 remaining captives taken in the Oct. 7
attack in return for a cease-fire and the release of Palestinians jailed in
Israel.
“It’s up to Hamas to come forward and respond to what is a serious proposal,”
Sullivan told NBC, adding there’s no clear idea how many hostages remain alive.
Smoke rises following an Israeli bombardment in the Gaza Strip, as seen from
southern Israel, Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024. The army is battling Palestinian
militants across Gaza in the war ignited by Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack into Israel.
(AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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Hamas and other militants killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, in the
Oct. 7 attack and abducted around 250. More than 100 captives, mostly women and
children, were released during a weeklong cease-fire in November in exchange for
the release of 240 Palestinians imprisoned by Israel.
Hamas has said it won’t release more hostages until Israel ends its offensive.
It also demands the release of thousands of Palestinian prisoners. Netanyahu has
publicly ruled out both demands.
Hamas is expected to respond to the latest cease-fire offer in the coming days.
___
Magdy reported from Cairo. Associated Press journalist Wafaa Shurafa in
Deir-al-Balah contributed.
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